Published on: 2025-06-08 20:40:05
It’s been less than a month since Elon Musk got his dream town in Boca Chica, Texas, and Starbase is already a nuisance. The SpaceX town has issued a memo to residents about a new zoning ordinance and updated citywide map that could impact how they use their property. Starbase, Texas, sent the memo to residents who own property within a “mixed-use district” that will allow for “residential, office, retail, and small-scale service uses,” according to a copy of the memo obtained by CNBC. The comp
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As if it weren't bad enough that SpaceX now has its own company town, the Elon Musk-owned company is almost immediately trying to mess with its residents' property rights. In a memo leaked to CNBC, the newly-formed town of Starbase, Texas informed people who own or live on land located within the company town's limits that they may "lose the right to continue using" their property "for its current use" thanks to proposed zoning restrictions. On June 23, Starbase's City Commission is holding, p
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The neighborhood once known as Boca Chica Village is seen near the SpaceX facilities where they build rockets in Brownsville, Texas, on May 3, 2025. Starbase, Texas, has notified some residents that they might "lose the right to continue using" their property as they do today, according to a memo obtained by CNBC. The town, home to Elon Musk's SpaceX, is considering a new zoning ordinance and city-wide map. The notice, sent to property owners in a proposed "Mixed Use District," would allow fo
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It’s official: SpaceX has its own company town on the southern tip of Texas despite concerns that it would expand the company’s control of the area. Residents living near SpaceX’s launch site, the majority of whom are company employees, voted in favor of turning Starbase into its own city. It was a sweeping win for SpaceX, with 212 voting in favor of the rocket city and six against, according to the Cameron County Elections Department. SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk has long dreamed of turni
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SpaceX's Starbase rocket launch site in South Texas is now officially its own city. Voters in the South Texas community over the weekend approved making the facility around the Boca Chica Beach area in Cameron County its own municipality. According to the Associated Press, the majority of the voters were SpaceX employees. About 283 people were eligible to vote; the tally was 212 to 6 in support of the measure, the report said. It's unclear if CEO Elon Musk voted in the Starbase election. Spac
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The votes are in and residents of a small swath of southern Texas are in favor of Starbase becoming a real city. The newly-designated city is home to SpaceX and many of its employees, and it’s where Elon Musk’s company builds rocket engines, launches spacecraft and manufactures other space-related tech. According to the final vote tally, 212 residents voted in favor of incorporating as Starbase, while six voted against the measure — but, it’s worth noting that most of the eligible voters in the
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX is getting its own official company town. Residents of an area around SpaceX’s Starbase launch site in southern Texas voted overwhelmingly on Saturday to incorporate as a city — also named Starbase. According to results posted online by the Cameron County Elections Department, there were 212 votes in favor and only six against. In a post on his social media site X, Musk wrote that Starbase, Texas “Is now a real city!” The new city’s residents are believed to mostly be Space
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The “company town” is largely an artifact of a bygone era—a vestige of an unhappy time in American history when wealthy land barons controlled society, and labor rights, at least as we know them today, did not yet exist. Today, you’d be hard pressed to find many of these corporate slums active in the U.S., but that hasn’t stopped Elon Musk from trying to bring them back in style. The Wall Street Journal has a new story out on SpaceX’s ongoing attempt to incorporate its own town in a region of t
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As SpaceX awaits the results of a critical election that would turn the location of its Starbase launch site into an incorporated Texas city, lawmakers have declined to give Elon Musk's aerospace company greater control over a main highway and public beach. Starbase, where the Musk-led company builds and launches its rockets, is located in Boca Chica, Texas, on the Gulf Coast. Residents of the area are voting on whether to turn the small community into a city, with the election scheduled to con
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SpaceX’s packed rocket launch schedule may get in the way of beach days. If the company succeeds in turning its launch site into an official city, SpaceX could assume full control over road and beach closures in Boca Chica, Texas. Texas lawmakers filed legislation that would effectively grant SpaceX officials sole authority to close down roads and public beaches near the Starbase launch site in South Texas for rocket launches, ground testing, or other related activities during the week, the Hou
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