The Borough of Northampton’s comprehensive plan - a guide and blueprint for the direction the community takes in the future - will receive a review by the borough planning commission for an update.

Borough council at the Oct. 6 meeting directed the five-member planning commission to make a thorough study of the present comprehensive plan, come up with ideas and then make recommendations to council.

There was no timetable set for such a submission to borough lawmakers.

Council adopted the present comprehensive plan Sept. 15, 2005. It includes the time frame from 2005 to 2030. Community Planner Victor Rodite noted the municipal planning code advises such plans be reviewed every 10 years.

“We have not conducted such a review in 14 years,” Rodite commented.

Council was informed the review will revisit the borough’s needs list, a plan to meet those needs and a schedule to implement the plan in part through the budgeting process.

In other news, for Coplay’s Halloween parade that occurred Oct. 18, council approved Northampton Fire Police to assist Coplay in traffic control.

Also, approval to have fire police provide traffic control for Northampton Area Food Bank’s Halloween Scare Away Hunger walkathon Oct. 29 was granted. Borough Manager Leroy Brobst said such assistance was sought for the protection of the walkers at Main Street and Laubach Avenue.

Residents abutting Lilac Court, between Washington Avenue and Line Alley, were granted their request for signs prohibiting parking to be erected on both the north and south sides. The paved surface of the area is approximately 13 feet.

“With any vehicles parked on either side, the area is virtually impossible,” Brobst said.

Lilac Court, between Washington Avenue and Lincoln Avenue, has “no parking” signs posted on both sides for the same reason.

Councilman Robert McHale, public works and sewer committee chairman, reported repairs to the sewer lateral at 1414 Main St. was accomplished with the aid of a sewer camera provided by Coplay-Whitehall Sewer Authority. Sewer lines in the area are approximately 20 feet deep and quite large, making Northampton’s unusable.