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Gennady Sheyner has been covering Palo Alto since 2008. His beats include City Hall, with a special focus on housing, utilities and transportation. He also covers regional politics for the Palo Alto Weekly, Palo Alto Online and its sister publications. He has won awards for his coverage of elections, land use, business, technology and breaking news.A native of Ukraine, Gennady grew up in San Francisco and graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with a bachelor’s degree in English and from Columbia University with a master’s degree in journalism. Prior to joining Embarcadero Media, he spent three years covering breaking news and local politics for The Waterbury Republican-American, a daily newspaper in Connecticut. He is a massive fan of English football, marathons and churros.
Stories by Gennady
Palo Alto weighs housing subsidies for city's homeless
With Cubberley Community Center now off-limits to Palo Alto's vehicle dwellers, city staff is proposing a program that would offer long-term shelter and case management to at least 20 homeless individuals.[Thursday, October 3, 2013]
Palo Alto seeks more polls before ruling on 2014 ballot
Palo Alto has a generous menu of options when it comes to tax measures that may appear on the November 2014 ballot, but with a little over a year left until elections, officials are still struggling to figure out which money-raising path to pursue.[Tuesday, October 1, 2013]
Palo Alto to ask residents for 'value' judgment
What are Palo Alto's core values? If you understand the question and have an answer, the City Council is all ears.[Monday, September 30, 2013]
Palo Alto officials to ponder city's 'core values'
After wading through the weeds of policymaking for much of the year, Palo Alto officials will consider a fuzzier, more philosophical question at their special meeting tonight: What are the city's core values?[Monday, September 30, 2013]
Big bucks fuel campaign for Maybell development
Opponents of Measure D might have the signatures, but it's the supporters who have the funds, campaign-finance statements released Friday show.[Saturday, September 28, 2013]
Measure D sides spar over impact of project
Opponents and proponents of Measure D all say they are in favor of more senior housing in Palo Alto. What they clashed on during Saturday's afternoon's debate was whether senior housing is really what the measure on November's ballot is really about.[Saturday, September 28, 2013]
City weighs penalties after illegal demolition at Edgewood Plaza
The developer looking to renovate the long-dilapidated Edgewood Plaza in Palo Alto was supposed to preserve a historic building, not destroy it. But what's done is done, and on Wednesday night, Palo Alto's planning commissioners struggled to determine how to punish the Sand Hill Property Company for its rare and unusual transgression.[Thursday, September 26, 2013]
City takes the ax to parking exemptions
With downtown's parking woes on everyone's mind, Palo Alto officials are scouring far and wide for solutions, from large new parking structures to the fine print in the city's Municipal Code. On Wednesday night, the city's Planning and Transportation Commission took aim at the latter as it considered a staff proposal to eliminate numerous exemptions that allow developers to "underpark" their new projects.[Wednesday, September 25, 2013]
City unveils downtown parking-permit program
For downtown workers, the days of free all-day parking in residential neighborhoods like Professorville and Downtown North may be coming to an end. The city unveiled on Tuesday a long-awaited parking program aimed at freeing up parking spaces at downtown's residential sections.[Tuesday, September 24, 2013]
Palo Alto embraces new laws to promote electric vehicles
Seeking to cement Palo Alto's position in the driver's seat of the electric-vehicle revolution, city officials on Monday adopted a policy mandating that every new house be wired to accommodate charging stations.[Tuesday, September 24, 2013]