Elon Musk He already has his own city. Since he began to buy land in 2012 to build SpaceX Sevelive, Their surroundings became a kind The bedroom of the city For employees of the company. However, I did not have such denomination. The busy area belonged to other places. Now, on the other hand, voting May 3 Provided Star base Category of the municipality of full right, with Your own mayor and two commissars.
This vote was held after Elon Musk sent a letter to the judge of Cameron County in December, Eddie TrevinhoAsks to satisfy your desire. He claimed that SpaceX contributes to give life in this area and enrich his economy. In addition, he indicated that his objects had grown so much that a community was created around them, that, in a sense, it was already a municipality. He needed only legal approval so that he could be considered such.
On May 3, they were chosen 283 inhabitants From the surrounding area with age and characteristics necessary for intervention in the vote. Most of them were SpaceX employeesHow logical, since there are almost everyone who lives there. The goal was, on the one hand, to decide if Municipal categoryThe field on the other hand, if it turned out yes, they will have to choose Mayor and commissarsHe won the “yes” field very conveniently, so he also continued to choose a government team. All of them turned out to be employees of Elon Musk Space Company, for which is a surprise.
SpaceX already has its own city
216 voters confirmed that they would like Starbase to be a city. Only 6 voted “no”, while the rest abstained. Confirmed the denomination of the municipality, the government team was chosen. Vice -President SpaceX, Bobby PedenHe was elected mayor. Meanwhile, commissars will be the senior director of the SPACEX health and environmental safety, Jordan Bousseand former SpaceX operations manager, Jenna Petrelka.
Starbase received denomination Municipality of class B. have Less than 5,000 inhabitantsThe field leads to the fact that officials impose local property taxes up to 1.5 %.
Without a doubt, this decision will give Elon Musk more power over the territory to continue the construction and the car. Therefore, although SpaceX workers living in this new city in the south of Texas are satisfied, environmental residents are not very happy.
Protests against the people Elon Musk
The neighbors of nearby cities, as well as environmental groups, were already concerned about Starbase before the municipality was considered. With each launch they rain thousands of meters on the set concrete, steel and other fragments of metalsThe field in 2023 was a forest fire caused by these fires. And, as if this was not enough, all the activity of the launch of the cosmos may affect the flora and fauna of this area. Groups of ecologists were concerned, especially with turtles and birds, but there may be many more injured. In addition, Elon Musk already had to pay a fine of 150,000 US dollars to the US Environmental Protection Agency and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality from Wish Waters.
If Elon Musk already had the right to act almost at will earlier, now that Starbase is a city controlled by SpaceX, it is clear that he will have a white letter for almost all his actions. For example, neighbors are afraid to close the road to the beach and the state park of Boka -ika when there are releases. Of course this could be the beginning The gigantic conflict of the neighborhood.
Source: Hiper Textual
