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About Gennady
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
Council members take aim at solo drivers
Faced with a glut of cars and parking that's spilling into downtown neighborhoods, four Palo Alto City Council members have issued a sizable challenge to the city's planning staff: Come up with a program that would get almost a third of solo car commuters to switch to other means of transportation.[Friday, September 13, 2013]
Palo Alto tries to curb public-safety disabilities
Palo Alto usually likes to be a leader, but officials found little to like in a recent finding by the Santa Clara County Grand Jury that the city has the highest rate of public-safety workers in the county retiring with disabilities. Now, the city is working to change that.[Wednesday, September 11, 2013]
City tries to put a value on 'public benefits'
With the traffic and parking impacts of Palo Alto's building boom dominating public discussion, officials on Wednesday balked at launching a zone change that would enable a four-story office building to go up at the city's most congested intersection.[Wednesday, September 11, 2013]
City taps Napa veteran as top planner
Palo Alto has chosen a new planning director, tapping the top planning official at Napa County for one of the city's most challenging and prominent positions.[Tuesday, September 10, 2013]
City Council at odds over new name for Main Library
The name "Rinconada" has been attached to Palo Alto ever since the city's founders carved out some land for development from the Rancho Rinconada del Arroyo de San Francisquito land grant more than 150 years ago. But the idea to switch Main Library's name to Rinconada Library proved a hard sell at Monday night's meeting of the City Council.[Tuesday, September 10, 2013]
PaloAltoGreen to flicker out, shift focus on gas
PaloAltoGreen is dead, long live PaloAltoGreen! So the City Council declared Monday night as it pulled the plug on the nation's most successful green-energy program and vowed to bring it back under a different guise.[Monday, September 9, 2013]
City to weigh appeal of Hamilton Avenue project
Residents concerned about the modernist design and parking impacts of a proposed development on Hamilton Avenue in downtown Palo Alto will get a chance to make their case in November, when the city holds a public hearing to discuss their appeal.[Monday, September 9, 2013]
Residents cry foul over parking for proposed office building
Residents concerned about downtown's parking shortage are calling for Palo Alto officials to hit the brakes on approving the latest office development that relies on zoning exemptions to reduce the number of parking spots it must provide.[Monday, September 9, 2013]
High-speed-rail 'safeguard' bill signed into law
Legislation spearheaded by state Sen. Jerry Hill that makes it next to impossible for the California High-Speed Rail Authority to build a four-track rail system on the Peninsula was signed into law Friday by Gov. Jerry Brown.[Saturday, September 7, 2013]
Maybell foes won't sue over ballot language
Palo Alto residents looking to overturn the city's approval of a housing development on Maybell Avenue remain deeply concerned about the ballot language drafted by the city attorney, but with the clock ticking down toward Election Day, they have chosen not to file a legal challenge.[Saturday, September 7, 2013]