DG 1110-3-146
Design Guide: Military Police Facilities
December 1979
Example Designs for Army Military Police Facilities: Illustrative Example C
Figure 6-22
Site Development Considerations
Provide adequate paved area within secure fence
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Provide "visual approach corridors"
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for occasional guard mount inspection
Provide angled paving at walk corners.
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Locate primary activity identification sign for easy
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8' high wall to screen critical areas.
visibility by oncoming vehicular and pedestrian
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traffic.
Provide 4' wide area between at walkways.
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Provide designated or reserved stalls in public and
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Provide directional signs that separate traffic
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staff parking areas for handicapped personnel
Locate evergreen trees to protect building from
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Designated "official reserved parking" in public
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the effects of prevailing winds.
and staff parking areas
Locate shade trees on south side of building.
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Provide service access area with a wide turning
radius for rear unloading
Locate planting areas to break-up expanse of pav-
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ing in large parking areas
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Locate large shade trees on perimeter of parking
areas as a buffer for paved areas
Locate planting to screen views into military police
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operational areas.
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Locate shade trees along edges of "visual ap-
proach corridors" at main public access points
Locate shrubs or ground cover in areas too small
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to be maintained as lawn
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Provide shade trees on south and west sides of
site to screen direct sunlight
Provide mowing strips along shrub beds, walls,
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and fences to reduce maintenance.
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Provide low shrubs where unobstructed view IS
required.
Provide pedestrian walkway lights.
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Provide landscaping at police entrances to en-
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Provide general roadway and parking lights.
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frame access points and to soften visual Impact in
transitional spaces.
Provide security floodlighting for MP areas located
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for unobstructed surveillance by pole mounted
Locate small shade trees in parking areas to screen
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CCTV cameras.
reflected sunlight
Provide additional landscaping to establish desired
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Locate evergreen trees along site boundary or
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character.
perimeter of buffer zone
Provide drop-off zone adjacent to main entry
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Preserve existing or undisturbed natural land-
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scape.
Provide bollards to control traffic, identify drop-off
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zones, and allow curb-free access by the handi-
Provide earth berms as visual screens
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capped.
Provide security fencing for operations
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Site Development
Considerations
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