Once votes are reviewed, and Cameron County commissioners approve the incorporation within the next two weeks, elected Starbase city leaders will be able to make rules and ordinances for the new city.

On Saturday, 212 people living in the community of Starbase — mostly SpaceX employees — voted in favor of the community becoming an incorporated city.

Only six votes were against the incorporation.

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State Highway Four runs through the area, and takes drivers to Boca Chica Beach. 

People who often come out to the beach told Channel 5 News they're concerned over what the vote means for public access to Boca Chica Beach.

"Our taxes are paying for a four lane highway to come to this beach, and what, for them to close it? For them to close it and tell us we can't use it? Why are we spending that money on a beach we can't use it,” Port Isabel resident Wanda Greenlaw said.

Bills are in the state legislature that could give Starbase authority to close down Boca Chica Beach.

“Any closure of a state highway, including SH 4, requires TxDOT approval," Texas Department of Transportation spokesman Ray Pedraza said in an email. “In reference to the bills before the legislature, TxDOT does not comment on pending legislation.”

Once the votes are canvassed and reviewed, Starbase's newly elected city leaders will create a tax base, city ordinances, and will have to adopt a city code 

"It's almost like a company town from years past,” Allison Bastian-Rodriguez — an attorney who specializes in local government law issues  – said. “I think what they want to do is promote this community through their activities of SpaceX, but also have more control over the land and the governance."

Bastian-Rodriguez she believes the mayor and commissioners elect are in the early stages of discussing how they want to run their city.

Starbase will have the ability to govern zoning and dividing property into smaller pieces to develop it.

They also have the option to either create their own police and fire department, or they can continue to work with neighboring entities. 

“As the community grows, as the economics change and more people come in, there's more development which is undertaken,” Bastian-Rodriguez said. “You get schools, you get hopefully a police department before too long."

As a city, Starbase would also be subject to the Texas Open Meetings Act and Texas Public Information Act.

Channel 5 News reached out to SpaceX to ask what’s next for them and Starbase, but the company has not responded as of Monday evening.

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