diff --git a/docs-website/.gitignore b/docs-website/.gitignore
index 482a764429..8befa30d04 100644
--- a/docs-website/.gitignore
+++ b/docs-website/.gitignore
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 /docs
 /genDocs
 /genStatic
+# note that genStatic is no longer used
 
 # Generated GraphQL
 /graphql/combined.graphql
diff --git a/docs-website/build.gradle b/docs-website/build.gradle
index 1be790695e..1cc02977e5 100644
--- a/docs-website/build.gradle
+++ b/docs-website/build.gradle
@@ -83,7 +83,6 @@ task yarnInstall(type: YarnTask) {
 task yarnGenerate(type: YarnTask, dependsOn: [yarnInstall,
     generateGraphQLSchema, generateJsonSchema,
     ':metadata-ingestion:modelDocGen', ':metadata-ingestion:docGen',
-    ':python-build:buildWheels',
     ]) {
   inputs.files(projectMdFiles)
   outputs.cacheIf { true }
diff --git a/docs-website/docusaurus.config.js b/docs-website/docusaurus.config.js
index 4349c9b0bc..a5f794065e 100644
--- a/docs-website/docusaurus.config.js
+++ b/docs-website/docusaurus.config.js
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ module.exports = {
   favicon: "img/favicon.ico",
   organizationName: "datahub-project", // Usually your GitHub org/user name.
   projectName: "datahub", // Usually your repo name.
-  staticDirectories: ["static", "genStatic"],
+  staticDirectories: ["static"],
   stylesheets: ["https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Manrope:wght@400;500;700&display=swap"],
   headTags: [
     {
diff --git a/docs-website/generateDocsDir.ts b/docs-website/generateDocsDir.ts
index 3a14baee07..0b7a0a780c 100644
--- a/docs-website/generateDocsDir.ts
+++ b/docs-website/generateDocsDir.ts
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ const GITHUB_BROWSE_URL =
   "https://github.com/datahub-project/datahub/blob/master";
 
 const OUTPUT_DIRECTORY = "docs";
-const STATIC_DIRECTORY = "genStatic/artifacts";
 
 const SIDEBARS_DEF_PATH = "./sidebars.js";
 const sidebars = require(SIDEBARS_DEF_PATH);
@@ -607,25 +606,6 @@ function write_markdown_file(
   }
 }
 
-function copy_python_wheels(): void {
-  // Copy the built wheel files to the static directory.
-  // Everything is copied to the python-build directory first, so
-  // we just need to copy from there.
-  const wheel_dir = "../python-build/wheels";
-
-  const wheel_output_directory = path.join(STATIC_DIRECTORY, "wheels");
-  fs.mkdirSync(wheel_output_directory, { recursive: true });
-
-  const wheel_files = fs.readdirSync(wheel_dir);
-  for (const wheel_file of wheel_files) {
-    const src = path.join(wheel_dir, wheel_file);
-    const dest = path.join(wheel_output_directory, wheel_file);
-
-    // console.log(`Copying artifact ${src} to ${dest}...`);
-    fs.copyFileSync(src, dest);
-  }
-}
-
 (async function main() {
   for (const filepath of markdown_files) {
     //console.log("Processing:", filepath);
@@ -680,8 +660,5 @@ function copy_python_wheels(): void {
       );
     }
   }
-
-  // Generate static directory.
-  copy_python_wheels();
   // TODO: copy over the source json schemas + other artifacts.
 })();
diff --git a/docs-website/package.json b/docs-website/package.json
index 52f04e46c4..258196e576 100644
--- a/docs-website/package.json
+++ b/docs-website/package.json
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@
     "_generate-python-sdk": "cd sphinx && make md",
     "_generate-docs-dir-script": "ts-node -O '{ \"lib\": [\"es2020\"], \"target\": \"es6\" }' generateDocsDir.ts",
     "_generate-docs": "rm -rf docs && mkdir docs && yarn _generate-graphql && yarn _generate-python-sdk && yarn run _generate-docs-dir-script",
-    "generate": "rm -rf genDocs genStatic && mkdir genDocs genStatic && yarn _generate-docs && mv docs/* genDocs/ && rmdir docs",
-    "generate-rsync": "mkdir -p genDocs genStatic && yarn _generate-docs && rsync -v --checksum -r -h -i --delete docs/ genDocs && rm -rf docs",
+    "generate": "rm -rf genDocs && mkdir genDocs && yarn _generate-docs && mv docs/* genDocs/ && rmdir docs",
+    "generate-rsync": "mkdir -p genDocs && yarn _generate-docs && rsync -v --checksum -r -h -i --delete docs/ genDocs && rm -rf docs",
     "lint": "prettier -w generateDocsDir.ts sidebars.js src/pages/index.js",
     "lint-check": "prettier -l generateDocsDir.ts sidebars.js src/pages/index.js",
     "lint-fix": "prettier --write generateDocsDir.ts sidebars.js src/pages/index.js",