Elon Musk’s company town: SpaceX employees vote to create ‘Starbase’
by Nick Robins-Early from Science | The Guardian on (#6X1KW)
Residents - most of them SpaceX workers - in remote Texas community approve plan to create new city
Voters in a small patch of south Texas voted this weekend to give Elon Musk a town to call his own, officially creating a new city called Starbase in the area where Musk's SpaceX holds rocket launches.
A couple of hundred residents of what was previously known as Boca Chica decided to make their unincorporated neighborhoods into a town that will grant them the authority to pass city ordinances.
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