Seems reasonable for all involved imho.

Yes, Texas Parks and Recreation Wildlife should take time to think about the offer. Document the reasons why they take it etc. Nobody would want Protected wetland to be swapped for a Parking lot that nobody has the money to demolish to return to nature, or any suspicion of anything like it.

SpaceX is not going to withdraw the offer anyway, they can take the time, the Land up north is worth much less to SpaceX than the one adjacent to their Spaceport.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

In exchange, the department would grant SpaceX 43 acres (17.4 hectares) from Boca Chica State Park, closer to the Starship area.

The land discussion once again brings into focus SpaceX’s ongoing activities in the environmentally sensitive area around its South Texas facilities, while the company works on lucrative contracts tied to Starship.

SpaceX has held land in the state of Texas since 2003, initially focusing on a test site west of Waco, according to the San Antonio Express-News in a July 2013 report.

The purchases were made through the SpaceX subsidiary Dogleg Park LLC, the Statesman report stated, citing public records in turn quoted by the Brownsville Herald.

Some of those purchases have been made directly to local homeowners, with one NBC report from 2019 suggesting that residents received offers from SpaceX of up to triple the value of their properties (per appraisals the company had commissioned).

The first space launch attempt of SpaceX’s Starship, on April 20, 2023, generated flying concrete debris chunks as the rocket’s first stage, powered by 33 Raptor engines, blasted out a a big crater beneath the pad.

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