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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
Despite Stanford objections, county calls for more housing in campus expansion
Stanford University would be required to build more than 2,000 housing units and to offer nearly half of them at below market rate to secure permission for its expansion plan under conditions that Santa Clara County released Wednesday.[Thursday, May 23, 2019]
With new plan, Caltrain prepares for ridership surge
Facing persistent funding challenges, a growing ridership base and a patchwork of plans from Peninsula cities for redesigning rail crossings, Caltrain is advancing a new business plan to help it navigate the competing pressures.[Wednesday, May 8, 2019]
When it comes to housing bill, neighboring cities see things differently
With a range of housing bills now sweeping through Sacramento, elected leaders from Menlo Park, Palo Alto and East Palo Alto met in a rare summit Monday night to swap ideas and share concerns about the shifting political landscape and its implications for local zoning.[Tuesday, May 7, 2019]
Bills to encourage housing density near transit advance in Senate
Two state bills that would allow more housing density in transit corridors cleared their first legislative hurdles this week, though each proposal will likely see significant changes before either becomes law.[Friday, April 5, 2019]
County calls on Stanford to ramp up faculty housing
Santa Clara County may require Stanford University to nearly quadruple the number of units it has to produce for faculty and staff to secure permission for its ambitious campus-expansion plan.[Friday, March 15, 2019]
Report: Inequality on the rise in Silicon Valley
Despite a sizzling economy and an influx of wealth, Silicon Valley remains a bastion of inequality, with more residents now struggling to afford the growing costs of housing, child care and transportation, according to a newly released snapshot of the regional economy.[Sunday, February 17, 2019]
Newsom scales back high-speed rail plans
California's decadelong dream of building a high-speed rail system between San Francisco and Los Angeles hit a dead end in Sacramento on Feb. 12, with Gov. Gavin Newsom declaring his plan to significantly scale back the hugely ambitious but deeply flawed project. ==BI (An expanded version of an earlier story.) ==[Tuesday, February 12, 2019]
Atherton police arrest man for gun violations
Atherton police arrested a man early Saturday morning who they said was sitting in a "suspicious vehicle" with a loaded firearm.[Saturday, February 2, 2019]
Analysis of Stanford's growth leaves unanswered questions
The final report from Santa Clara County on the likely impacts of Stanford University's proposed expansion is unlikely to satisfy local leaders, who for months have been calling for stronger action from Stanford to compensate for the consequences of its growth.[Friday, January 4, 2019]
Stanford sues Santa Clara County over housing law
Stanford University on Wednesday filed two lawsuits against Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, charging county officials of unfairly and illegally targeting the university with a recently adopted law that aims to promote more affordable housing on campus.[Friday, December 21, 2018]