Editing Mastic Beach, New York (section)

== History ==
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In 2010, a group of residents sought to incorporate Mastic Beach as a village. Petitioners blamed the town of Brookhaven for not doing enough code enforcement on blighted streets and eyesore buildings, believing more diligent code enforcement under village control would improve the community aesthetics. Opponents were concerned that creating the village would increase taxes, and that estimates for the proposed village's total budget were low. At $549,500 annually, the village would take up building code enforcement, leaving police, fire, and sanitation to Brookhaven.<ref name="grumblings">{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/nyregion/28mastic.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0| title=A Hamlet's Eyesores Prompt a Revolt| newspaper=The New York Times| access-date=January 20, 2013 |date=March 28, 2010 |last=Berger |first=Joseph}}</ref><!--citation covers the entire paragraph -->

After a vote on August 31, 2010, incorporation was approved. The proposed incorporation needed to be passed by a majority in order for the hamlet to become a village. The first elected mayor was Paul Breschard.

The boundaries of the village of Mastic Beach differed from those of the previous census-designated place (CDP). The village did not include the [[William Floyd House]] grounds as well as a few blocks in the extreme southwest of the CDP, but it added several blocks west of Mastic Road and Commack Road.<ref name="MBVEC">{{cite web| url=http://masticbeach.org| title=Mastic Beach Village Exploratory Committee| publisher=Mastic Beach Village Exploratory Committee| access-date=July 6, 2009| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090331113441/http://www.masticbeach.org/| archive-date=March 31, 2009| url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Dissolution===
Residents voted 1,922 to 1,215 on November 8, 2016, to revert to an unincorporated area with services handled by the Town of Brookhaven.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hampton |first1=Deon J. |title=Mastic Beach residents vote to disband village |url=https://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/mastic-beach-voters-go-to-polls-today-to-decide-their-village-s-future-1.12627537 |access-date=July 3, 2021 |work=[[Newsday]] |date=November 16, 2016}}</ref><ref name="CBS New York">{{cite news |last1=Hall |first1=Sophia |title=Mastic Beach Residents Vote To Dissolve Village |url=https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/11/17/mastic-beach-village-vote/ |access-date=July 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161118134056/http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/11/17/mastic-beach-village-vote/ |archive-date=November 18, 2016 |work=CBS New York |date=November 17, 2016}}</ref> The decision to dissolve the village was decided upon due to political issues and fiscal concerns.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Seeking a 'New England' feel for hamlet's blighted downtown|url=https://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/master-developer-mastic-beach-revitalization-1.50319673|access-date=2021-08-03|website=Newsday|language=en}}</ref>

A formal dissolution plan was developed over several months and approved by the Village Board (4–1) at a special meeting on March 16, 2017. The dissolution took place on January 1, 2018.<ref name="DISSOLUTION" /><ref name="last-time">{{cite news|last1=Hampton|first1=Deon|title=Mastic Beach locks up for the last time as village dissolves|url=https://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/mastic-beach-village-dissolves-1.15655575|access-date=January 2, 2018}}</ref>