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    "original_url": "https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/05\/05\/us\/elon-musk-starbase-texas.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20260212&instance_id=170981&nl=the-morning&regi_id=122976029&searchResultPosition=4&segment_id=215164&user_id=b25c5730c89e0c73f75709d8f1254337",
    "parsed_content": "Texas\nStarbase\n Texas State Highway 4Starbase cityboundaryCity boundaryBoca ChicaState ParkPlanned areafor more housingExistinghousingStarbase factoryMassey\u2019s TestFacilityCity ofBrownsvilleAd Astra SchoolU.S.-Mexico borderBoca ChicaBeachLot underconstruction Over the last few years, Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX has been building a kind of company town around its launch site in Cameron County, Texas, near the U.S.-Mexico border. Space X has used its launch pad to test and launch larger and larger rockets starting around 2019. It was the reason for the company\u2019s move to this area along the Gulf Coast. With approval from the county, SpaceX closes the public beach during launches, angering some longtime residents. But a bill that would have allowed the new city of Starbase to approve beach closures on its own failed last month. Texas State Highway 4, included in the city, is the only road in and out of Starbase. Portions of the two-lane highway are closed during launches. This area has housing for employees of SpaceX, including the home where Mr. Musk is registered to vote in Texas. There are Airstream trailers, modular homes and some larger houses. Much more appears to be planned, including outside the city\u2019s boundaries, which could eventually be expanded via voluntary annexation. Here are the company\u2019s rocket manufacturing facility and offices, which have also grown quickly. On one building, a huge mural depicts a colony on Mars, which Mr. Musk hopes to reach. The city\u2019s boundaries snake around various parcels of land owned by SpaceX, including some that still appear to be vacant, suggesting opportunities for further growth. In some places, like this lot, SpaceX is already building more than a dozen larger homes and is planning for retail businesses, including a grocery store and cafe. Its plans for the city also appear to include more housing, potentially expanding into the wetland, which could require state or federal approvals. But Starbase\u2019s initial boundaries contain a relatively small 1.5 square miles or so, and do not include all the property owned by SpaceX in the area. For example, the planned school, Ad Astra, is contained within the city, but the testing site seen here is outside the city limits. The area remains remote, about 20 miles from Brownsville, the nearest city, and the drive can sometimes take 45 minutes or almost an hour because of traffic and slowdowns at the Border Patrol checkpoint on Highway 4 between Brownsville and Starbase. The New York Times; aerial image via Vexcel Imaging The creation of the city of Starbase followed one of the nation\u2019s more unusual elections. No campaigning took place and there were no yard signs or other evidence of a consequential vote in the area. According to preliminary results, the measure passed by a whopping 212 to 6 \u2014 the kind of margin that had been expected but was very unlike most contests in a deeply polarized nation.Under state law, a new city can be incorporated after a certain number of residents file a petition to do so, and a majority of voters approve it. Only registered voters who live within its proposed boundaries are able to take part in the election. In the area of Starbase, that was about 280 people, most of whom either work for SpaceX or have a relative who does.A majority of the eligible voters registered in the area since the start of the year, and 90 percent had done so since 2024. Two-thirds were men, with an average age of about 27. Many had never taken part in an election of any type before. But turnout was more than 75 percent in this one. It was not clear whether Mr. Musk voted.As part of the incorporation election, voters also chose a slate of elected officials to run the new city, including its new mayor, Bobby Peden, a SpaceX vice president, and two city commissioners. Initially, the candidate for mayor had been a different SpaceX employee, but he was replaced by Mr. Peden on the ballot. Neither responded to requests for comment.SpaceX has explained little about its plans for the new city beyond its intention to have Starbase take over some functions that the company itself has been conducting, such as managing utilities and roads. Some local residents said there had been talk of connecting the city to a local water system. As it stands, residents must have their water trucked in from Brownsville.But the company has filed paperwork with the state to spend millions building the school, power plant and the commercial center along with a sushi restaurant near Mr. Musk\u2019s house.",
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