A comprehensive plan is a long-range planning tool used to guide the future growth and
development of a community. It expresses a community’s vision and goals for the future,
sets forth a plan to achieve them and a strategies and recommendations for implementing
them. Comprehensive plans address the uses to which land in a community should be put,
how the movement of people and goods should take place, how housing should be
provided and maintained, how the community should provide services to its citizens, and
how the community should interact with neighboring communities. This plan, once adopted
by the Borough, should serve as a guide for future Council decisions as well as for
implementing municipal programs and ordinances