US News & World Report has Eagan an the 134th best place to live in the US and #5 in MN
https://patch.com/minnesota/plymouth-mn/8-mn-towns-among-250-best-places-live-us-news-ranking
Hello! I’m looking for a handyman recommendation. We just have simple projects, primarily hanging a bunch of stuff, installing some bathroom hardware, etc. Would love a rec of someone you had a good experience with. Thanks.
It’s been several weeks since we had our boulevard torn up by the crew that is laying the new fiber for AT&T. I called the City a couple weeks ago and reported that numerous spots were not adequately repaired. Within only a couple hours a supervisor crew from the fiber contractors showed up and talked a Big Game that they were gonna get somebody out there to fix it.
Fast-forward two weeks and nothing has happened. I went and looked at a portion of it closer yesterday when I was out mowing and found a razor blade sticking straight up in my grass. Amongst other trash and debris and cigarette butts. I also have not seen any seed sprouting in the areas that they had supposedly fixed.
Cautionary tale, make sure that you’re checking out your yard after they leave. Especially if you have kids running around with no shoes.
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.
I wish I could find a place in the suburbs that has a draft option for grain belt.