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Most Starbase residents, primarily SpaceX employees, voted in favor of incorporation. Some locals protested the incorporation, citing concerns about restricted access to Boca Chica State Park and ...
SpaceX is requesting an election to decide if its Starship rocket site should be incorporated as a city in South Texas. The ...
A South Texas community, mostly made up of SpaceX employees, voted 212 to 6 in favor of establishing a new city called Starbase. By Hank Sanders Members of a South Texas community that has served ...
The incorporation could fundamentally shift local authority dynamics by potentially giving SpaceX ... seeks federal approval to increase annual launches at the site from five to 25. Starbase ...
City leaders held their first public meetings this week since voters approved the South Texas city’s incorporation.
With the incorporation of Starbase, the area now has a city council, mayor and commissioners. Voters unanimously elected a mayor, Bobby Peden, who works for SpaceX, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Voters walk to a polling place at SpaceX’s South Texas facility to cast a ballot in the Starbase incorporation vote on May 3, 2025. Credit: Michael Gonzalez for The Texas Newsroom One couple ...
More than three-fifths of the 283 voters eligible to cast ballots Saturday work for SpaceX, according ... a child and is concerned that the incorporation of Starbase will have devastating impacts ...
Then in December 2024, the county received an incorporation petition for Starbase. Now, the overwhelming majority of voters—many of whom are SpaceX employees or relatives of the aerospace ...
Company towns have persisted and the SpaceX employees living in Starbase appear poised to establish the newest one. What they hope to accomplish through incorporation will likely have a lot to do ...
While SpaceX employees are casting their votes in the incorporation election, they are also casting ballots for Starbase’s first elected officers — a mayor and two city commissioners.