Coral Gables Commissioner Melissa Castro wants to make sure no elected official in the city can quietly cash in on development projects they helped approve, even years later.

At the City Commission’s next meeting, Castro will introduce a proposed ordinance that would create strict new anti-kickback and disclosure rules for elected officials.

The change is necessary, she said, to close a glaring “loophole” in local ethics law.

“I feel like some elected officials will guarantee a developer that, yeah, they’re going to have the votes. Maybe they themselves will vote ‘no,’ but they’ll guarantee the project will pass. And then afterward, that’s where the arrangement comes up. I think there needs to be more transparency when it comes to those types of — I don’t want to say corruption, b

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