A Texas county on Wednesday approved holding an election sought by SpaceX that would let residents living around billionaire Elon Musk 's company decide whether to formally create a new city called Starbase.

If a majority of the roughly 500 residents living around the South Texas site vote yes in May, Starbase will be the state’s newest city.

Elon Musk is one step closer to creating his own city in the southern tip of Texas after a local vote was set for May 3 on his bid to incorporate Starbase, the remote property where SpaceX builds and launches the billionaire’s Starship rockets.

Since breaking ground for Starbase in 2014, SpaceX has been developing, building and launching its Starship mega-rocket from the facility near Boca Chica Beach. And for years, CEO Elon Musk and other SpaceX officials have been pushing to rename the area.

The Texas launch site of Elon Musk’s SpaceX could soon have its very own city. Officials on Wednesday approved an election sought by the aerospace firm that would allow residents who live near its Starbase site—almost all of them employees—to carve out a new municipality in an unincorporated area of Cameron County near the U.