The city of Starbase — a municipality formed around SpaceX’s rocket launch site at Boca Chica Beach — is preparing to expand again.
Officials are expected to vote Wednesday on annexing 1,256 acres of nearby land, a move that would expand the city’s footprint and extend its reach further into Cameron County’s coastal area, public records show.
Courtesy | City of Starbase
Starbase plans to host a public hearing to expand its extraterritorial jurisdiction and then vote to annex the land into city limits. The city’s ETJ must be expanded to encompass the new city boundaries, according to Starbase’s agenda packet posted about 7 p.m. Tuesday. The agenda itself was posted last week, and the packet was added after an inquiry by the Rio Grande Valley Business Journal.
The vote comes just two days after SpaceX successfully launched its eleventh test rocket into space.
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Kristen Mosbrucker-Garza
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Kristen Mosbrucker-Garza is a versatile multimedia news reporter who lives and works along the Texas-Mexico border in Hidalgo County. Mosbrucker-Garza is a news reporter for the Rio Grande Valley Business Journal. During her career she's worked for the McAllen Monitor, San Antonio Business Journal, The Advocate Newspaper in Louisiana, Phoenix New Times, and public media outlets in Baltimore and Philadelphia.
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