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5.3 Sites and Infrastructure -General 5.3.1 Land pazcels. Minimum recommended pazcel sizes for NRCs aze shown in Table 5.1. Recommended sizes allow for infrastructure, activities, separation of incompatible activities, traffic queues, and landscaping/buffering. 5.3.2 Site entrances. NRC entrances are located and designed for safe ingress/egress. Traffic entering and leaving NRCs flows smoothly. Toms into and out of the facilities can be made safely, even at peak traffic times. Measures employed to ensure safe ingress/egress include: • Adequate queue space for departing traffic. • In heavy traffic areas, traffic signals or service/frontage roads to/from signalized intersections or other safe points of ingress/egress. • Adequate sight distance in both directions from points of ingress/egress. Neaz the entrance to every NRC, on both highway approaches, signs aze placed alerting motorists to the NRC location. A lazge sign just inside the entrance displays the facility name and purpose, and indicates directions to the various centers and zones within the NRC. 5.3.3 Traffic infrastructure. Internal roadways and paved azeas aze designed to facilitate safe and smooth traffic flow, eliminate congestion, and provide parking azeas for customers pazticipating in on-site activities. • All internal roadways, service drives, aprons, and pazking lots are asphalt paved. • All rolloff containers aze placed on concrete pads. • Traffic signs and speed bumps in strategic locations control traffic movement and speed. • Roadways aze designed and constructed with a minimum of sharp toms, intersections, and steep ramps (greater than eight percent slope). • Queue lanes at dropoff zones and at the NRC exit aze cleazly marked, and do not extend across intersections. 5.3.4 Traffic patterns. Internal traffic patterns aze designed to ensure safety of persons and property, as well as customer convenience and free and efficient traffic flow. Traffic patterns permit customers to complete their business at the NRC during one loop through the facility. NRC traffic patterns feature: • For customers, a single road from the NRC entrance to the rubbish and recyclables dropoff zone and then to the NRC exit. • Between the site entrance and the rubbish and recyclables dropoff zone, drives leading off the main internal road to dropoff zones for greenwaste and scrap metals, and to the community enterprise center. This places the rubbish and recyclables zone last on the loop through the NRC. • One way flow of traffic on the main customer road through azeas of intense activity. • Service roads for transfer and rolloff trucks and other heavy vehicles, which divert industrial traffic from azeas of heaviest customer activity. 31