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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
Citizen lawsuit aims to stop Maybell project
A coalition of Palo Alto residents have filed a lawsuit against the city, seeking to overturn the City Council's June approval of a new housing development on Maybell Avenue.[Friday, August 2, 2013]
Palo Alto set to ban vehicle dwelling
Palo Alto's emotional two-year debate over whether it should be illegal for people to sleep in vehicles could reach its conclusion Monday night, when the City Council is scheduled to vote on the controversial ban.[Thursday, August 1, 2013]
Palo Alto takes aim at narrow sidewalks
There are few places in Palo Alto where dreams and reality clash as starkly as on El Camino Real. Envisioned as a "Grand Boulevard" with wide sidewalks and bustling pedestrians, it has instead gained notoriety for big buildings and small sidewalks. Now, Palo Alto hopes to change that.[Wednesday, July 31, 2013]
Citizen analysis shows parking woes deepening
In three years, the parking shortage in downtown Palo Alto will be nearly three times as bad as it is today as the problem spreads to Crescent Park and sections of Old Palo Alto, according to an analysis conducted by a group of downtown residents and unveiled this week.[Wednesday, July 31, 2013]
Overnight-parking ban eyed for part of Crescent Park
Crescent Park residents whose blocks are inundated at night by cars from neighboring East Palo Alto may soon have a solution to their parking woes, though just about everyone agrees that this solution is, at best, a consolation prize.[Tuesday, July 30, 2013]
County's ambulance woes unlikely to hurt Palo Alto
As Santa Clara County looks for ways to cope with the massive losses suffered by its private ambulance provider, Palo Alto is expecting few interruptions to its own city-run ambulance operation.[Tuesday, July 30, 2013]
Businesses blast proposed parking restrictions downtown
As downtown residents continue to clamor for the city to do something about the recent disappearance of parking spaces on their blocks, business owners are lining up against the most commonly proposed solution -- a permit program that would limit the time non-residents can park in residential areas.[Tuesday, July 30, 2013]
Opponents of Maybell project complete signature drive
A grassroots effort to stop a proposed housing development on Maybell Avenue in Palo Alto hit another milestone Friday afternoon when citizens submitted a petition with more than 4,000 signatures to City Hall, far more than was needed to bring the issue to a citywide vote.[Friday, July 26, 2013]
Buena Vista conversion spurs school debate
When residents of Buena Vista Mobile Park paid a surprise visit to Palo Alto City Hall last fall to urge city officials to preserve their homes, education was among their leading concerns.[Friday, July 26, 2013]
Buena Vista closure effort stymied by info gap
For more than a half century, the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park has stood out as a quiet counterpoint to Palo Alto's affluent, touchscreen-tapping Prius culture. Now, an effort to close the city's only mobile-home park is shedding a spotlight on a part of the community that hasn't had much representation at City Hall in recent years.[Friday, July 26, 2013]