WFTV Channel 9 investigative reporter Ashlyn Webb laid out a simple but explosive claim coming out of Osceola County, Florida: residents in Concorde Estates believe their neighborhood’s Community Development District (CDD) spent roughly $900,000 in about 20 days, and the people paying the bills still can’t see clear receipts showing where it went.
Webb explained why this hits differently than a typical HOA argument over landscaping. In Florida, a CDD isn’t just a neighborhood committee with opinions—it’s a mini-local government, created to build and maintain things like roads, landscaping, parks, and amenities, and it’s funded through assessments on homeowners that show up on annual property tax bills.
So when residents tell Webb, “That money is ours,” they’re not speaking in metaphors. They’re saying the disputed dollars come straight out of their household budgets, collected through the system they can’t easily avoid…