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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
High-speed rail hits speedbump in its Caltrain partnership
What was billed as a historic occasion for the California High-Speed Rail Authority and its Bay Area partners ended on an awkward note Wednesday morning when the rail authority failed to get votes it needs to renew its vows with Caltrain and other agencies involved in building the controversial, $68 billion rail line.[Wednesday, March 6, 2013]
City tries to keep retail on Emerson Street block
For a glimpse of downtown Palo Alto's changing fortunes, one need look no further than the 600 block of Emerson Street, where zoning laws have been swaying with the economic tides in recent years. On Wednesday, the city's planning commissioners responded to the latest trends by endorsing a requirement for ground-floor retail on this peripheral downtown block.[Tuesday, March 5, 2013]
Palo Alto looks to light up California Avenue
California Avenue merchants and city officials haven't always seen eye to eye when it comes to the proposed revamp of the commercial strip, but this week they reached accord on one portion of the controversial project -- the need to install new streetlights all over the city's "second downtown."[Tuesday, March 5, 2013]
Edgewood Plaza work to proceed despite violation
A long-stalled effort to spruce up Palo Alto's dilapidated Edgewood Plaza shall go on, the City Council decided March 4, despite the developer's illegal demolition of a historical building at the plaza last fall.[Monday, March 4, 2013]
Palo Alto goes 'carbon neutral' with electricity
Palo Alto's green community buzzed with excitement Monday night as the city joined an elite club of municipalities that draw all their electricity from carbon-free sources.[Monday, March 4, 2013]
Palo Alto mulls further changes to California Avenue
Palo Alto's latest plans to renovate California Avenue, including a proposal to add pedestrian streetlights to the commercial thoroughfare, will be weighed and potentially approved by the City Council tonight (Monday).[Monday, March 4, 2013]
Three robberies, one armed, hit Palo Alto
A man with a semi-automatic handgun walked into Public Storage on East Bayshore Road on March 2 and made off with cash and various items in what Palo Alto police said was one of three robberies that occurred in the city throughout the day.[Sunday, March 3, 2013]
Palo Alto releases salary data
The City of Palo Alto's payroll fell by 3 percent in 2012, though the rising costs of employee benefits kept the overall compensation level relatively steady.[Friday, March 1, 2013]
High-speed rail wins legal battle
An effort by Peninsula cities to stop California's high-speed-rail project came to a screeching halt this week when a Sacramento County judge upheld the California High-Speed Rail Authority's environmental-review process for the highly controversial project.[Friday, March 1, 2013]
Edgewood Plaza rebirth could be delayed
It took years of neighborhood meetings, litigation, zoning hearings and squabbles over the meaning of "historical" before the developer Sand Hill Property Company finally received a green light to redevelop the dilapidated Edgewood Plaza in Palo Alto's Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood. It took far less time for Sand Hill to demolish, without the city's permission, a building deemed to be historical and fling the long-awaited project back into planning purgatory.[Thursday, February 28, 2013]