Admittedly, municipal comprehensive plans don’t have the page-turning appeal of a good thriller novel. Still, John Grisham probably isn’t going to help manage development and land preservation in your township; it’s those comprehensive plans, created by municipal authorities, that provide a guiding role and recommendations on how land should be utilized to best meet the needs and wants of communities.

Chalfont Borough Council recently voted 6-1 to adopt the municipality’s 2024 Comprehensive Plan update, a guiding document that sets down what the town aims to do in the coming years.

Chalfont Borough Council this month unanimously approved the hiring of Kyle Milligan as an employee of the Public Works Department.

Plans are afoot to create a 20-acre retirement community at the site of Pam Minford’s old Fountainhead banquet hall, which burned to the ground in 1999 at 6650 Lower York Road in Solebury.