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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
Downtown development sparks architecture debate
With its glassy walls, boxy shape, 50-foot height and preponderance of office space, a four-story building proposed for 240 Hamilton Ave. is perfectly emblematic of downtown Palo Alto's latest development trends. For downtown resident Douglas Smith, that's exactly the problem.[Thursday, September 5, 2013]
Developer disputes Palo Alto's 'impact fees'
The developer building a hotel and 26 homes at the former Palo Alto Bowl site is demanding a refund from the city, which he claims overcharged him for "impact fees" relating to the project.[Wednesday, September 4, 2013]
Downtown landowners may be asked to pay for new garages
As Palo Alto marches toward a 2014 vote to raise funds for infrastructure repairs, officials are backing away from the kind of all-or-nothing bond that voters passed in 2008 to pay for library renovations and pursuing a series of more modest proposals with more wiggle room and a greater chance of winning support.[Tuesday, September 3, 2013]
Eshoo and Lofgren seek more answers before Syria vote
With the U.S. Congress preparing to debate a potential military strike at Syria, Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto, and Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose, have co-authored a letter laying out the major questions that they say must be answered before they make a decision.[Tuesday, September 3, 2013]
Sketch released of suspect in post-office robbery
Palo Alto police have released a sketch of one of the men suspected of robbing a couple at the Palo Alto Post Office on East Bayshore Road last Tuesday.[Saturday, August 31, 2013]
Ruling sparks fresh hope for high-speed-rail critics
A fresh verdict from a Sacramento County judge threatens the one source of money that high-speed-rail officials felt was a sure thing — the $9 billion in state funds that state voters approved for the $68 billion project in November 2008, when the price tag of the San Francisco-to-Los Angeles system was pegged at $45 billion.[Friday, August 30, 2013]
Foes of Maybell development shift focus from project site
Palo Alto's most controversial housing development of the moment would occupy a nondescript orchard site in the Green Acres neighborhood, but the escalating battle over the proposal has already spilled over to just about every section of the city.[Thursday, August 29, 2013]
Transportation vision shifts focus to bikes, parking
When Palo Alto last adopted an official transportation vision, the Prius had just been unveiled in Japan; high-speed rail was something they did in France and China; a Professorville resident could still find a parking spot outside her home; and no one at City Hall was lobbying for a new bike bridge stretching over U.S. Highway 101 toward the Baylands. The updated version, which the city is preparing to adopt next year, shows just how much times have changed.[Wednesday, August 28, 2013]
Palo Alto refines plan to replace Baylands trees
As Palo Alto officials prepare to chop down more than 500 trees at the city's golf course and to plant hundreds of other trees at various locations, they are taking a cue from the medical community and adopting as their central tenet "First, do no harm."[Wednesday, August 28, 2013]
Ban on feeding wildlife advances in Palo Alto
Feeding the ducks in the Palo Alto Baylands was once a popular local pastime, as common as hiking in the foothills or hacking a server. Now, with animals growing more aggressive, the city is preparing to ban the feeding of wildlife and feral cats in all city parks and open space preserves.[Tuesday, August 27, 2013]