Design Guide: Military Police Facilities
DG 1110-3-146
General Planning and Design Guidance: Site Design Considerations
December 1979
(1) Public Access and Site Circulation Vehicle
Since they also may be involved in both staff and visitor
registration, public information, on-duty police desk
related military police activities, special attention must
assistance and other military police services as well
be given to making the full range of required building
as certain operations and administrative support
and site facilities reasonably accessible to, and fully
activities generally involve interaction with the public.
usable by, the physically handicapped. This need for
Typically, military police activities in this category
access to and use of military police facilities will be an
are directly accessible from or adjacent to the main
important factor in the initial planning and design of
visitor entrance. Since one of the types of visitors to
building and site elements. Actual requirements for the
a military police facility may be the handicapped, the
handicapped that result in the provision of special fea-
design of pedestrian and vehicular access and site
tures in certain site elements will depend on the level
circulation features should not impose a barrier to
of severity of impairment that is used as a design
their use of the facility. Signage must be large enough
criterion, i.e., totally blind people may need site signage
to be easily read by handicapped people with visual
that includes braille lettering, special hardware may be
impairments. Curbs, walkways, parking spaces,
needed for use by amputees, access for wheelchaired
ramps, stairs, entrance approaches and doorways
users can be improved by providing automatic door
must be designed with careful consideration for the
opening devices, etc. General design standards for the
handicapped should be considered in the design of
physical needs and dimensional requirements of
handicapped people with manual impairments who
such site elements as paved surfaces, natural surfaces,
might use mechanical aids (wheelchair, cane,
curbs, drainage and utility vault grates, crosswalks
for driveways and parking areas, outside ramps, stairs,
crutch, etc.). The design of site elements unique to
the needs of the handicapped, such as gently sloped
handrails, railings, seating areas, drop-off and pick-up
zones, parking spaces, plantings, lighting, signage, tele-
ramps oversize doorways, etc., must conform to the
guidelines and criteria contained in the above refer-
phones and site furniture (trash receptacles, benches,
enced documents.
sign posts, fencing, utility poles, etc.). For detailed guid-
(2) General Parking Figure 3-3 illustrates the need
ance, refer to DOD Construction Criteria Manual
to provide specially marked and reserved parking
4270.1-M and to ER 1110-1-102 and EM 1110-1-103
which contain generally applicable standards.
stalls designed to accommodate the handicapped.
Figure 3-3 Handicapped Parking Requirements
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