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Park & Ride
Recommendations relating to Naylor Road Station’s Park & Ride lot are dependent upon
implementation of TOD and therefore summarized in the following section. No changes are
recommended to existing Park & Ride operations.
TOD-Based Recommendations
In order for the established vision of TOD at Naylor Road to be realized, the current station
area footprint—comprised of separate bus, Kiss & Ride, and Park & Ride facilities—must be
reconfigured to create more developable land. Demand for Park & Ride and bus facilities,
however, is estimated to increase in the future. Balancing the vision for a redeveloped station
and the need to meet growing access demand will require a variety of strategies.
This study identifies future access and capacity needs at Naylor Road Station, but does not
design a site plan for redevelopment of Metro property. Future station access needs in this report
will provide context to future planning that will determine the character and layout of station
area redevelopment. Exactly what the future station area will look like is presently unknown,
and will be largely dependent on future agreements between Metro, Prince George’s County, the
State of Maryland, and developers seeking to undertake redevelopment of the site. Given this
uncertainty, this section proposes a variety of strategies, which are individual recommendations
tied to and made necessary by transit-oriented redevelopment of the station area. Options
are groups of strategies designed to accommodate the access needs of Naylor Road Station in
2040. While joint development is expected to begin before 2040, station facilities will need to be
designed to accommodate ridership needs over the next several decades.
The options presented here have been grouped into those that achieve access goals by A) shifting
parking from the station to other locations, B) replacing the station’s parking facilities on-site, or
C) expanding the parking facilities of the southern Green Line. Kiss & Ride access would remain
at the station under all options. Options are centered on parking because it is a central driver of
transit system accessibility, and because its availability is among the most important aspects of
successful TOD. While demand for parking is high at Naylor Road Station and will continue to
grow in the future, devoting too much space for parking can negatively impact the pedestrianand
transit-friendly environment of TOD as well as reduce the amount of developable land. A
balance must be struck to meet station access needs without compromising TOD placemaking
principles. Presenting a variety of options provides different means of achieving this desired
balance in the future.
Assumptions
Strategies and options in this section are based on a set of assumptions regarding future
development characteristics and future transportation connectivity and accessibility. The
following assumptions are composed of factors, constraints, and considerations that influenced
the development of TOD-based strategies for Naylor Road Station.
1. Naylor Road Station will be redeveloped into a regional center in compliance with the
Branch Avenue Sector Plan’s approved M-X-T zone, which permits high-density, mixed-use
buildings up to 12 stories high. The tallest buildings would be located the closest to the
station entrance.
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