The Town of Brookhaven on New York’s

The Town of Brookhaven on New York’s Long Island imposed a six-month moratorium on development in an unattractive strip commercial stretch of the Montauk Highway. The moratorium is allowing time for Colorado-based consultant Peter Swift to draw up a code encouraging redevelopment to take a mixed-use new urban form. Vision Long Island, an advocacy organization formerly known as Vision Huntington, believes this would be the first new urban code introduced on Long Island. Over the past several months, a vision project for a postwar suburban area known as Mastic-Shirley has been carried out with assistance from Vision Long Island, the Town, Rick Hall, Dan Burden, ADL III Architects, and Councilman Ed Hennessey — a strong proponent of smart growth and New Urbanism. Swift intends to adapt Duany & Plater-Zyberk’s SmartCode to local conditions, creating an overlay district.