Design Guide: Military Police Facilities
DG 1110-3-146
General Planning and Design Guidance: Site Design Considerations
December 1979
should conform to guidelines expressed in DOD Con-
lighting should be in accordance with FM 19-30. Refer
struction Criteria Manual 4270.1-M and T 5-803-1.
to Figure 3-4 for guidance.
Considerations for choices of appropriate grass types
should not exceed TM 5-830-2. Refer to Figure 3-5 for
g. SERVICE The site plan should incorporate ade-
guidance.
quate space for access by service vehicles, such as
(1) Uses Trees and shrub plantings should be in-
fire trucks, ambulances, and trash trucks. Refer to DOD
corporated into the plan of site development to effec-
Construction Criteria Manual 4270.1-M. In addition,
tively modify conditions of temperature, glare, wind,
conform to requirements in TM 5-803-3 and TM 5-
dust, smoke and noise. Refer to more specific guide-
812-1.
lines contained in TM 5-830-1, as well as DOD Con-
h. LANDSCAPE PLANTING Development for mili-
struction Criteria Manual 4270.1-M, and as illustrated
tary police facilities should include new plantings of
in Figure 3 on Page 6 of TM 5-803-3.
(2) Parking Area When designing the parking area,
trees and shrubs, the establishment of lawn areas, and,
where possible, the preservation of existing vegetation,
consider buffer screening, planting medians, and
substantial islands of vegetation as appropriate to
all as required in DOD Construction Criteria Manual
screen and break the visual impact of long-paved
4270.1-M, as well as TM 5-803-3. When designing the
planting, consider the selection of plant materials which
areas. Rather than hide the parking, the purpose of
these elements is to provide an aesthetic balance
are readily available, easily maintained, compatible with
between the paving and the cars. A desirable ratio
the surrounding environment, and whose ultimate
growth characteristics are appropriate to the use for
is for large-growing trees to be spaced approximately
fifty feet on center, as recommended in TM 5-830-a.
which they are intended. Layout application selectton
Figure 3-5 Landscape Planting Considerations
3-7
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