SpaceX Seeks To Incorporate As Official Texas City

The Texas Tribune reports:

SpaceX’s goal is to colonize Mars. But first, it wants to create an official city in Texas. Employees living on the site of SpaceX’s operations in South Texas are requesting a special election to determine whether the site can be incorporated into a city. Current residents of Starbase, the company’s South Texas headquarters and launch site, submitted a petition to Cameron County Judge Eddie Treviño Thursday.

“We are investing billions in infrastructure and generating hundreds of millions in income and taxes for local businesses and government, all with the goal of making South Texas the Gateway to Mars,” said Starbase General Manager Kathryn Lueders in a letter to Treviño. If Starbase were to become its own city, it would harken back to an era when cities were typically built around a single company or industry.

Read the full article. SpaceX claims that incorporating as a city is not an attempt to dodge the multiple environmental lawsuits filed by local groups. What would the city motto for Starbase, Texas be?

Billionaire Elon Musk’s company sent a letter to local officials requesting an election to turn what it calls Starbase — the South Texas site where SpaceX builds and launches its massive Starship rockets — into an incorporated city. https://t.co/MNYzYNuQ7l

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