Starbase, Texas is now a thing after SpaceX employees and residents vote to incorporate

[Elderberry]

myRGV By Mark Reagan -May 3, 2025

SpaceX employees and residents who live at what was formerly known as Boca Chica Village, or Kopernik Shores, voted Saturday to incorporate as a municipality.

The early vote was 173 to 4.

The election was initiated in December after Cameron County Judge Eddie Trevino Jr. received a petition from more than 10% of the several hundred eligible voters who are residents of Starbase.

Since the petition met requirements of the Texas Local Government Code, the county judge was required to call an election.

Starbase will now be incorporated as a Type C general law municipality, or one with more than 201 but fewer than 4,999 residents.

More: https://myrgv.com/alerts-brh/2025/05/03/starbase-texas-is-now-a-thing-after-spacex-employees-and-residents-vote-to-incorporate/

[mystery-ak]

Musk gets his Texas wish. SpaceX launch site approved as new city of Starbase

A vote was held Saturday to formally organize Starbase as a city.
ByVALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press and JIM VERTUNO Associated Press
May 3, 2025, 8:46 PM

McALLEN, Texas -- The South Texas home of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket company is now an official city with a galactic name: Starbase.

A vote Saturday to formally organize Starbase as a city was approved by a lopsided margin among the small group of voters who live there and are mostly Musk’s employees at SpaceX. With all the votes in, the tally was 212 in favor to 6 against, according to results published online by the Cameron County Elections Department.

Musk celebrated in a post on his social platform, X, saying it is “now a real city!”

Starbase is the facility and launch site for the SpaceX rocket program that is under contract with the Department of Defense and NASA that hopes to send astronauts back to the moon and someday to Mars.

Musk first floated the idea of Starbase in 2021 and approval of the new city was all but certain. Of the 283 eligible voters in the area, most are believed to be Starbase workers.

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https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/voters-decide-texas-home-elon-musks-spacex-become-121422661

[Wingnut]

Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

[DefiantMassRINO]

I hope residents of Starbase, Texas, won't owe their souls to the company store.

[BobfromWB]

After the City of Starbase becomes larger and more of the Star Factory comes on line at Boca Chica, there will be a push at the Cape to rename it Star Cape, where an even larger Starbase & Star Factory are under construction.