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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
Ronald McDonald House expansion clears final hurdle
The Ronald McDonald House, which offers shelter to families of children with life-threatening illnesses, will roughly double in size and add 69 rooms under an expansion plan the Palo Alto City Council enthusiastically approved Monday night.[Tuesday, June 4, 2013]
Palo Alto may toss out City Council term limits
Days after three members of the Palo Alto City Council proposed extending the council's term limits from two to three, the nine-member body threw another idea on the table: eliminating term limits entirely.[Tuesday, June 4, 2013]
Palo Alto seeks new vision for central downtown site
After crashing into a wall of community opposition last year, Palo Alto officials on Monday formally hit the restart button on their planned transformation of a prominent downtown site commonly known as 27 University Ave.[Monday, June 3, 2013]
Infrastructure bond a tough sell, survey says
The good news for Palo Alto officials is that citizens feel confident in the City Council's ability to take care of the city's gaping infrastructure needs, a new survey indicates.[Monday, June 3, 2013]
Families flock to Palo Alto's 'civic hacking' celebration
Outside Palo Alto, the phrase "civic hacking" may sound like an oxymoron. But here, it's a cause to for the city to promote and celebrate, which Palo Alto did Saturday with a first-of-its-kind National Day of Civic Hacking event.[Saturday, June 1, 2013]
Budget: Ten ways the city may change in 2014
Since the world economy tanked in late 2008, budget season has been the dreariest of times in Palo Alto, but something changed. Business picked up, vacancies disappeared and property taxes returned to the pre-crash heights of 2008. In City Manager James Keene's proposed budget for fiscal year 2014, which begins July 1, the Great Recession is a faded memory.[Saturday, June 1, 2013]
City looks to redesign 'critical' downtown site
When billionaire developer John Arrillaga proposed last year to build a complex of high-rises and a theater near Palo Alto's downtown Caltrain station, his vision didn't exactly wow the community. Now, the city wants to give the community a chance to offer its own vision for the site around 27 University Ave.[Thursday, May 30, 2013]
Jay Paul development wins its first zoning battle
In a city teeming with major development applications, few fuel hopes and stir anxieties like Jay Paul's grand plan for 395 Page Mill Road. The project, which includes two large office buildings and a new police station, scored a major victory Wednesday when the Planning and Transportation Commission initiated a zone change that would make the development possible.[Wednesday, May 29, 2013]
Palo Alto to weigh smaller City Council
When the Palo Alto City Council meets for its regular meeting on Monday night, it will find itself grappling with a question with existential overtones: Is a nine-member council really necessary?[Thursday, May 30, 2013]
Attorneys challenge report on Buena Vista conversion
Residents who would be displaced by the conversion of Buena Vista Mobile Home Park into a complex of high-end apartments should receive a far greater compensation than what is being proposed by the project's developer, attorneys for the tenants allege in a letter to the city.[Wednesday, May 29, 2013]