The Downtown Neighbors Alliance, which represents residents of some high-rise apartments in downtown Miami and Brickell, is asking a top state official to investigate the Miami Downtown Development Authority for alleged “wasteful spending.”
The Alliance, in a statement on Wednesday, said it wants Florida Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia to examine the DDA “for years of wasteful spending and misuse of tax dollars derived from a discriminatory ‘hostage tax’ levied exclusively on downtown residents.”
“For 58 years, Downtowners have been forced to pay this additional tax without ever being given the opportunity to vote on its existence,” said Alliance President James Torres. “No other Miamians live under such a system.”…