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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
Arastradero Preserve eyed for tree influx
When it comes to trees, the golf course's loss may be Arastradero Preserve's gain. As Palo Alto looks for ways to mitigate the removal of 500 trees from the city-owned golf course, officials are looking to the nature preserve for a possible solution.[Tuesday, July 23, 2013]
Senior housing or not, Maybell area ripe for redevelopment
When Palo Alto officials agreed last month to rezone property on Maybell and Clemo avenues to enable construction of a senior-housing development and 12 homes, they issued a warning to the angry masses opposing the zone change: Be careful what you wish for.[Saturday, July 20, 2013]
Palo Alto races to predict future traffic
When it comes to planning for city growth, no area is more difficult to keep pace with than traffic. And within Palo Alto, California Avenue is a perfect illustration of that.[Saturday, July 20, 2013]
The long and winding road to an updated 'land-use bible'
[Friday, July 19, 2013]
Residents, developers clash over city's vision
Palo Alto's Comprehensive Plan is intended to sum up the values of the city and guide officials' decisions on how the city develops. But increasingly, the plan is being disregarded in favor of zoning exemptions and quid pro quo arrangements with developers, a practice that's angering many residents.[Friday, July 19, 2013]
Hamilton Avenue going through office boom
Palo Alto's University Avenue might get all the glory, but Hamilton Avenue is getting the growth. A glassy new project proposed by local architect Ken Hayes is just the latest in a string of major developments that are expected to add vitality, mass and a whole lot of office workers to downtown's second-busiest thoroughfare.[Thursday, July 18, 2013]
Referendum petition submitted in Palo Alto
The signatures are in, and Palo Alto may be heading for a November election. Critics of the proposed development on Maybell Avenue submitted a referendum petition the City Clerk's office Wednesday afternoon, just making their deadline.[Wednesday, July 17, 2013]
Maybell project opponents race against deadlines
Opponents of a recently approved development on Maybell Avenue are heading into crunch time in their drive to overturn a City Council decision to allow construction of 60 units of housing for low-income seniors and 12 homes on a former orchard site.[Wednesday, July 10, 2013]
Discount grocer to open shop at Alma Village
Grocery Outlet, a chain specializing in extreme bargains, will take over the Alma Village supermarket that has been vacant since early April, when Miki's Farm Fresh Market went out of business.[Monday, July 8, 2013]
Urban development proposed for El Camino block
A quaint, eclectic and sparsely developed block of El Camino Real near Fry's Electronics in Palo Alto could get a hefty injection of urbanism. The city is about to launch a review of a mixed-use project at 3159 El Camino Real, a four-story building that would include a restaurant, office spaces and 48 apartments targeting young professionals.[Friday, July 5, 2013]