Residents press West Fargo officials on how special assessments are calculated, notices and street repairs

Multiple West Fargo property owners used the commission meeting to ask for explanations of how special-assessment amounts are calculated, how notice letters were mailed and who is responsible for fixing construction defects that leave standing water.

Jennifer Erickson, who lives at 1112 Legion Lane West, asked whether parcels that are vacant today but developed later would be assessed again. City Engineer Jerry Wallace replied, “we wouldn't be wanting to assess them twice for the same project because that's against Century Code.” Wallace explained that vacant tracts within a district are generally assigned equivalent units now—typically one equivalent unit per 10,000 square feet for non-single-family tracts—so future subdivision does not automatically trigger a second…