Downtown Miami residents mobilized Saturday against a tax increase on homeowners and businesses in the urban core, citing quality of life issues and advocating to instead give owners relief to help pay for condo fee increases.
The conversation at a public meeting triggered an analysis that could lead to a tweaked proposal this week.
Miami’s Downtown Development Authority, a quasi-independent city agency funded by a special tax levy, has proposed a tax rate that would collectively cost current taxpayers some $640,000 more, adjusted for inflation. The Downtown Neighbors Alliance, a group advocating against the tax hike, says that’s that the tax burden would have an unwanted impact on 75,000 residents in the district in downtown Miami, Brickell, and Edgewater. The new rate would take effect Oct. 1, the start of the new fiscal year…