Elon Musk's company SpaceX is one step closer to making Starbase, Texas an official town. Starbase is home of SpaceX's starship development and production facility in South Texas.
Elon Musk 's company SpaceX is one step closer to making Starbase, Texas an official town. A judge announced a special election to allow residents in the community to vote on incorporation.Starbase is the home of SpaceX's starship development and production facility.It is currently an unincorporated community within Cameron County, in the Rio Grande Valley, roughly 25 miles east of Brownsville.
The city will also have a mayor and two commissioners. SpaceX's security manager, Gunnar Milburn, is the sole candidate for mayor.Election Day for the city’s creation would be May 3, with early voting in late April.According to the petition and county documents, almost all the signatures on the petitions were homes of SpaceX employees. All live within the community's proposed boundaries. The affidavit also states that SpaceX owns nearly all the homes within the proposed boundaries.
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