I live in a residential neighborhood and on a street no one is on unless they live here or deliver something. We get cars and trucks going 30-35 down our street. I have two kids. There are like 12 others on the street that all play outside. It’s dangerous.
What is the right process to follow to request speed bumps or something? Thanks!
One of them days. I need one with onion!
I wanted to put a write-up of what happened at this week's *marathon* City Council meeting since it was very well-attended by members of the public and had to do with data centers, which I know is an area of major concern for many of us.
The Council had previously passed the moratorium on new data centers, but one of the pre-existing ones is operating out of the former Unisys building at 3199 Pilot Knob Rd (by Sperry Tower).
It was purchased in November 2025 and is now operating as a data center. Apparently, their rooftop chillers failed or were close to failure in February 2026. They brought in four chilling units on trailers and parked them outside the building, connected them, and began running three of them without authorization from the City.
Numerous residents spoke at the meeting about the noise and the vibrations these chillers created and the City has also received many noise complaints since they began operation.
The site owners/data center was seeking an Interim Use Permit this week for them to run the chillers for 3-6 months until new permanent units could be installed.
The representatives for the data center said the new ones will use less water and are more efficient.
But they said there were plans for EIGHT new chillers. The Council (rightly) pressed them on why the data center needed eight of the more efficient variety when they were supposedly only trying to replace three. Unsatisfactory answers led many, myself included, to suspect there were plans for substantial expansion.
Ultimately, the City Council voted unanimously to start the process of denying the Interim Use Permit and I have to say, I thought every member of the Council was excellent. I have been complimentary and critical of them in the past but this falls firmly in the former category.
They had the backs of the residents experiencing this noise and disruption. Mayor McGuire summed it up very well in his comments to the data center reps: "You didn't come to the City before doing this [starting the trailered chillers that are causing the problems] because you knew you weren't going to like the answer."
I found the answers overall from the data center reps to be evasive. There are additional details I can share in the comments on some laughable "noise studies" if anybody is interested.
I was also very, very glad to see the public turnout on Tuesday. It made me very proud to live in this city.
Does anybody rent a unit at the storagemart on Dodd that had the fire the other night? We have a big unit and are out of town for a while. StorageMart hasn’t gotten back to us to let us know if there is any water or smoke damage to our unit, just wondering if anybody with a neighboring unit has any information.
I saw on the EHS website that "Senior Privileges begin on Wednesday, May 13th. Badges and lanyards are given to students in good standing." and that piqued my curiosity! What kinds of privileges do these kids get?
I wish I could find a place in the suburbs that has a draft option for grain belt.