The town's acreage is nearly built out, but Talega, Marblehead Coastal and more development along San Clemente's northern and eastern fringes will mean that generally sticky traffic will probably become even thicker.
Its dusty main street is lined with concrete homes and old men sipping rum in the afternoons, and its tidy government health clinic is populated by workers from the big collective farm, outside of town, whose acreage once belonged to a local grandee with American ties, but which, since 1959, has been owned by the state.
Also included within the BSD are coastal resort towns, small acreage properties, larger more traditional farms, and small townships based upon agricultural and tourist industries.
Mr. Lombardi, the supervisor, said he was shocked about how well Mr. Fareri profited by the transaction, but he added that it illustrates the premium put on property when a town has scarce available acreage.
Mr. Grucci, 47, of East Patchogue, heads the government of Brookhaven, the large town that dominates Suffolk in acreage, population and political power.
Even the island's most aggressive realtors, the ones who could effortlessly sell acreage around the town's smoldering dump, gave up on Codfish Park.
The village, which covered one square mile when incorporated in 1902, has expanded primarily through annexation: of Scarborough in 1906 and acreage from the town of Mount Pleasant in 1927.
Before he left Carrick for Launceston in 1888 his holdings in Carrick included the mill, the steam mill, Archer's Folly and some houses and acreages within the town and "Hattondale".
But Ms. Harris and others say that building three town house clusters on the surrounding acreage would corrupt the historic integrity of the Willow Hall site, which overlooks the remains of the Speedwell ironworks.
The conservancy then plans to turn over its restored bottomlands to the Town of Brookhaven, which is where the acreage lies, or to the state or some other public entity.
