Elon Musk's SpaceX "utopia" ideas made public - WSJ

Elon Musk has been accused of sacrificing transparency for speed in his attempts to build a "Texas utopia along the Colorado River," the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The billionaire has bought as much as 6,000 acres of land in Bastrop County, Texas, where he hopes to build a refuge from regulation. Called Snailbrook and located 35 miles (56km) outside the capital city of Austin, Musk's privatized paradise will sit next to the Texas facilities currently under construction for his space exploration company SpaceX and his tunneling concern Boring Co. The plot is also intended to house workers from Tesla, whose Texas Gigafactory is also nearby. Musk wants to incorporate Snailbrook in order to clear any regulatory hurdles, which would allow him to construct new homes and rent them at a fraction of the market rate exclusively to tenants working for his Austin-area companies.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has moved his company's headquarters to Snailbrook, Texas, where employees will have 30 days to move out and face higher rates. Boring Co. management has filed paperwork to build 110 more houses, and Bastrop County hasn't even received an application for incorporation from Musk or his companies. Musk and his proxies have snapped up more than 3,500 acres near Austin in the last three years, and some officials claim the real number is as high as 6,000 acres. Musk reportedly plans to build a separate private compound at some distance from employee housing for his personal use. The speed of the transformation has spooked some locals and triggered calls for increased transparency, something Musk left California to avoid.