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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
City strategies for housing growth target industrial areas, transit corridors
Facing a regional mandate to plan for more than 6,000 units, Palo Alto is taking a closer look at the commercial and industrial area in the city's southeastern corner as a promising place for future housing.[Thursday, January 13, 2022]
Palo Alto police chief may run for county sheriff
Police Chief Robert Jonsen is considering entering the race to replace Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith, a six-term incumbent who is fending off accusations of corruption and misconduct.[Wednesday, January 12, 2022]
Pension costs, omicron variant cloud Palo Alto's budget forecast
Palo Alto is bracing for another year of budget challenges, with pension costs climbing and the COVID-19 omicron variant threatening to slow down the city's economic recovery.[Tuesday, January 11, 2022]
Palo Alto treads cautiously on adopting new Ventura vision
Palo Alto's vision for transforming the Ventura neighborhood by adding affordable housing, parking and retail continued to advance this week, even as the City Council said acknowledged that will likely take decades to materialize.[Tuesday, January 11, 2022]
Palo Alto settles with family of utility worker who died on job in 2019
Palo Alto has reached a settlement with the family of a utility worker who died of electrocution on Nov. 16, 2019, while replacing a transformer on Middlefield Road.[Friday, January 7, 2022]
Palo Alto City Council to return to virtual-only meetings as COVID spreads
After a brief return to City Hall, the Palo Alto City Council will be reverting to virtual-only mode next week in response to the rapid spread of COVID-19 cases.[Thursday, January 6, 2022]
Palo Alto owes $135K to victim of police dog attack
Palo Alto will pay $135,000 to settle a lawsuit by Joel Alejo, who was sleeping in a shed in Mountain View where he was attacked and repeatedly bitten by a police dog in June 2020.[Wednesday, January 5, 2022]
New future envisioned for shuttered Antonio's Nut House building
A California Avenue building that for decades housed the Antonio's Nut House bar would be partially demolished, reconstructed and furnished with a new dining pavilion under a plan submitted by the property owner.[Wednesday, January 5, 2022]
Palo Alto's first SB 9 project would bring four homes to Barron Park lot
Two days after California's new split-lot law took effect, Palo Alto received its first application: a proposal to build four homes on a single-family lot on Matadero Avenue.[Tuesday, January 4, 2022]
Burt, Kou to lead Palo Alto as mayor, vice mayor in 2022
Pat Burt will lead the City Council in 2022 after his colleagues elected him to serve as mayor for the third time in his political career. Lydia Kou was unanimously chosen as the city's vice mayor.[Monday, January 3, 2022]