The Fargo southside flood control project is unfair to the residents between Interstate 94 and 30th Avenue South. We residents in this area are in the 500-year flood plain, and we will be paying almost as much as those south of 30th Avenue who are in the 100-year flood plain. We will be assessed for flood protection we don't need. If we flood, so will everyone north of I-94 unless they do what a city employee told me after the meeting. He told me if it floods in our area, they will dike the underpasses and the interstate and flood us out.
I live one block south of the interstate and will be assessed between $1,700 and $2,600, and if I pay for this over 25 years at6.5 percent interest, it will cost me between $3,400 and $5,200.
I feel this is a big ripoff and will be voting against it. I hope my neighbors do the same.
