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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
In an odd move, city imposes raises on union
Palo Alto on Monday night overhauled the salaries of more than 200 city workers, though for more than 40 of them the pay increases arrive as a bittersweet treat.[Tuesday, June 25, 2013]
New streets may be named for fallen officers
When South Palo Alto's newest housing development opens its doors at the former site of the Palo Alto Bowl, it will include as part of its design a direct link to the city's past.[Monday, June 24, 2013]
Palo Alto to consider design contest for 101 bike bridge
Just two years ago, Palo Alto's proposed bike bridge over U.S. Highway 101 was a pipe dream, one of the most expensive components of the city's new master plan for bicycle and pedestrian improvements.[Saturday, June 22, 2013]
With little fanfare, Palo Alto adopts housing vision
For Palo Alto, the new Housing Element is at once an expansive vision document, a catalog of future housing sites and a homework assignment from hell. So when the City Council unanimously voted Monday night to officially adopt the new housing vision, it did so with a sigh of relief rather than a cheer of celebration.[Thursday, June 20, 2013]
Contentious Maybell development wins approval
After several false starts, Palo Alto's bitter and deeply emotional debate over a proposed housing development on Maybell Avenue finally reached its conclusion Monday night when the City Council unanimously granted a zone change that would make the project a reality.[Monday, June 17, 2013]
Palo Alto bids farewell to popular planning director
Palo Alto on Monday gave an emotional sendoff to Planning Director Curtis Williams, whose mild-mannered leadership, passion for community engagement and encyclopedic knowledge of local zoning laws won praise from even some of the city's most vehement land-use critics.[Monday, June 17, 2013]
New budget signals Palo Alto's economic turnaround
Palo Alto signaled its dramatic economic turnaround on Thursday night when it passed a budget that adds police officers, accelerates street repairs and -- for the first time in years -- contains no service cuts whatsoever.[Friday, June 14, 2013]
Palo Alto seeks truce in Maybell zoning battle
Palo Alto's rancorous and highly emotional debate over a proposed senior-housing development on Maybell Avenue will spill over into next week after the City Council decided on Thursday not to vote on the project and directed the developer and the opposition to give diplomacy another chance.[Thursday, June 13, 2013]
Suspect at large in Palo Alto armed robbery
A masked man wielding a handgun robbed a 7-Eleven store in Midtown early Wednesday morning, Palo Alto police said.[Wednesday, June 12, 2013]
City in no rush to create Cubberley 'master plan'
As Palo Alto officials plow ahead with negotiations over a new lease for Cubberley Community Center, they are setting aside until a later date broader questions over what types of uses the sprawling and eclectic complex should accommodate.[Tuesday, June 11, 2013]