Members of a community in southern Texas that has served as Hub or the launch company of Elon Musk, Spacex, voted on Saturday to formally establish a new city called Starbase, fulfilling one of the dreams of long -term heroes of Mr. Musk.
At the time the surveys closed at 7 PM, 173 of 177 votes were in favor of incorporating the city of Starbase, according to Cameron County, which the vote is administered.
There are 283 eligible voters, said Remi Garza, the county electoral administrator. They stopped counting about 40 votes, Garza said, but the early voting count was “very past” that the majority requirement should approve the incorporation.
The community, known by the locals as Boca Chica, covers approximately 1.5 square miles in a spray of land that is repressed against the Mexican border.
Spacex began in the area in 2014, and since then it has become the central site and the company’s launch site, as well as in the home of its employees.
In its social media platform, X, Mr. Musk has referred to the area as a starbas more than one box in the last four years.
“My main home is literally a house of ~ $ 50k in Boca Chica / Starbase that spacex rent,” Musk wrote in June 2021. “It is an incredible thought.”
In December, people living around the offices of the company and the launch site presented a request to establish the city of Starbase, Texas.
The petition described a community of approximately 500 inhabitants, including at least 219 main residents and more than 100 children. Almost all are an interest rate and work in Spacex, according to the request.
The municipality would be eligible to create its own police and fire departments, as well as to adopt their own ordinances, he thought he does not have to do it.
“The law requires that cities do very little,” said Alan Bojorquez, an Austin lawyer who specializes in helping Texans through the process of incorporating new municipalities.
The maintenance of the road is one of the most important practical problems and would no longer be handled by the county. But, as a municipality, Starbase would be eligible for state and federal subsidies, he would have some immunity for demands and could also condemn the property, said Bojorquez.
David Goodman Contributed reports.
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