BUT IT WILL BE OK IF HE TAKES THOSE NEO-NAZI FASCIST AFRIKANER "REFUGEES" WITH HIM TOO!!!
These people are the wrong color for musk to treat them like human beings. This is apartheid in Texas, don't be surprised if those neo-nazi fascist afrikaner "refugees" end up living in Starbase. Remember, Texas still has a town called White Settlement in the Dallas area.
SpaceX’s town in Texas warns residents may lose property rights
The newly formed city of Starbase will vote on zoning changes this month.
Pompa, who described feeling “caged in” by SpaceX’s near continuous development in an interview with The Washington Post, said he now worries he will lose his home.
“This is like heaven to me,” he said. “Musk wants to take heaven away from me.”
The city of Starbase and SpaceX did not respond to requests for comment.
A new city emerges
On May 21, the city of Starbase said in a notice to Pompa and some other residents that officials were considering a new zoning ordinance and map. The recipients own property in parts of Starbase that fall under the proposed “Mixed Use District,” which “allows for a blend of residential, office, retail, and small-scale service uses,” according to the notice, signed by City Administrator Kent Myers.
Attached to the letter was a proposed zoning map identifying which parts of the city would fall under each of three classifications: a mixed-use district, an open space district and a heavy industrial area. Pompa’s property — which includes a deck overlooking the Rio Grande, from which he’s watched dozens of SpaceX test flights — falls in the proposed mixed-use district.
Pompa and other South Texas residents have expressed fear at what they see as encroachment by Musk, the world’s richest person and until recently a central figure of President Donald Trump’s administration. But land use experts said the changes outlined in Starbase’s letter are typical of those made by a new town.
“Texas gives local governments a lot of responsibilities and rights. One of them is, if they so choose, they can put zoning ordinances in place,” said Emilio Longoria, a professor at South Texas College of Law Houston. “It is not suspicious that Starbase, being a newly incorporated municipality, would want to put a land use regulation in place like zoning.”
But Longoria noted that zoning can place “an immense burden on landowners” because it regulates how they can use their properties. Zoning inherently takes away property rights, he said.
“The question is, how much will be taken away and under what terms?” Longoria said.
Kellen Zale, a professor at the University of Houston Law Center, cautioned that Texas has strong protections for private property owners. Those include a section of Texas’s rules for local government that says a municipality incorporated after Sept. 1, 2003, may not bar a person from “continuing to use land in the area in the manner in which the land was being used on the date of incorporation if the land use was legal at that time.”
Robert Paterson, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, said he expects the city commission to “grandfather the existing uses” of the property owners’ homes — allowing the residential areas to remain residential.
“That’s what most cities in Texas would do. They would not push people out of their homes,” Paterson said.
Officials plan to host a public hearing on the zoning ordinance on June 23 at Starbase’s temporary city hall — located steps from SpaceX’s production facility — to hear public comments and potentially adopt the proposal.
Challenges from local and environmental groups
The changes to Starbase extend beyond the city’s zoning ordinance. This week, the Texas legislature approved a measure that would formally grant the city the power to shut down Boca Chica Beach for SpaceX launches. Lawmakers passed the bill, moments before ending its biennial session, over the objections of the local Indigenous community and environmental groups.
“It feels like every day, SpaceX is moving faster to colonize our region,” said Bekah Hinojosa, co-founder of the South Texas Environmental Justice Network. “Now that Trump is in office, just in the last few months, we’ve seen SpaceX become their own company town, increase launches. Now they’re taking over control of our beach.”
“They’re pushing fast and hard to take over very quickly,” Hinojosa added, calling SpaceX’s arrival a “disaster” for the local community.
Although the company has brought more than 3,000 jobs to the region, residents and environmental advocacy groups have raised concerns about the impact of the company’s launch complex on the local environment. One local group, SaveRGV, filed a lawsuit last year accusing SpaceX of polluting the waters at Boca Chica Beach. The group dropped the lawsuit in February.
In 2024, the Environmental Protection Agency fined SpaceX nearly $150,000 for violating the Clean Water Act by discharging hundreds of thousands of gallons of wastewater into wetlands near the launch site without a proper permit. SpaceX said it settled the matter with the agency, despite disagreeing with the findings, The Post previously reported.
Juan Mancias, chairman of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe, said Musk and the state’s lawmakers don’t realize how sacred Boca Chica Beach is to the tribe, noting that the 8-mile stretch of sand is the site of their creation story.
“In our language, we call it ‘ma’yapia,’” he said. “This is a mothering place. A lot of babies were born here during those times.”
Hinojosa accused Musk and state officials of ignoring her group.
“We ask for meetings, and they don’t respond to our meeting requests,” she said. “We’ve done everything. We’ve hired our lawyers, sent letters. We’ve filed lawsuits. We’ve sent public comments. We’ve gone to city, county meetings.”
Mancias and Hinojosa said they both plan to attend the June 23 hearing.
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