7. Development Site Overview

Opportunity Site Assessment

7. Development Site Overview

The consultant team selected three potential development sites based upon their redevelopment potential, the ability to introduce new streets and improve connectivity, ideas shared by stakeholders, and the opportunity to phase development based on existing commercial leases and market conditions: • North of the TLC Transit Center between University Boulevard, New Hampshire Avenue, and Lebanon Street • Langley Park Plaza site to the east of the transit center • The vacant Tick Tock Liquor site at the northwest corner of University Boulevard and Riggs Road

These three parcels are all privately owned, so the following site concepts are meant as illustrative examples of new TOD in line with the densities allowed by the proposed LTO-C zoning. Future redevelopment of these sites will be dependent on the actions of the existing property owners. M-NCPPC and the County should engage existing owners to gauge interest in redevelopment, and to begin discussions about how supportive public investment and incentives can enable transformation of existing low-density strip malls into mixed-use TOD.

Figure 7A: General Vicinity Map