The Brookview site is an early 1950's courtyard barracks style rental apartment community that has fallen into some disrepair and is laid out in a form that is inconsistent with the traditional development pattern of Claymont.
New Castle County published a comprehensive plan in 2002 which outlined their intention to protect unique historic neighborhoods and natural resources by guiding development to be consistent with their 300 year building heritage. The product of community and government efforts resulted in the Hometown Overlay Zone, Design Guidelines, and Claymont Community Redevelopment Plan.

From the Comprehensive Plan came the county-wide Hometown Overlay Zoning District. The purpose of the overlay district is to streamline the development process to promote village-style development. It facilitates development to have a mixed-use compact character and provides flexibility in development standards that supersede current zoning categories. Without the historic overlay designation, this preferred style of development would be diffi­cult, if not impossible, to implement.

Select communities in New Castle County conducted their own Community Redevelop­ment Plan to identify areas for development. Claymont contracted Thomas Comitta Associ­ates, Inc. -Town Planners & Landscape Archi­tects to assist in this visioning process. From this process came Claymont’s vision of growth 1) a revitalized Claymont town center and 2) a re-established Philadelphia Pike as a main commercial corridor. Building on the public participatory planning process undertaken by New Castle County and the town of Claymont, The Commonwealth Group and Setting Properties (Developers) and Torti Gallas and Partners (Architects & Planners) undertook a highly successful public charrette process to develop a master plan for the redevelopment of Brookview.