The station’s immediate proximity to URI, American Power, and relative nearness to T.F. Green Airport and Providence make the site an attractive location for future development. However, the current conditions and planning suggests that commuter rail and transit options will precede development and the possibility of TOD around the station remains a longer term option. Per South Kingstown’s Comprehensive Town Plan, the protection of open space around the station and the effort to concentrate growth around the Wakefield and Peacedale areas suggest that TOD around Kingston Station would occur only after the core of South Kingstown was built-out. TOD in the area would also require significant housing and commercial development because there is virtually none right around the train station. An increase in parking availability might be necessary at the station if commuter rail were to become a reality. This poses a challenge for TOD, where the potential increase in traffic right around the station becomes more difficult in locating a pedestrian-friendly mixed residential/commercial development.

However, the introduction of other transit options, such as renewed shuttle service to and from the train station to the URI campus, and to Wakefield could help facilitate further use of commuter rail and spur additional development around the train station. Additionally, the traffic congestion and threats to the aquifer posed by sprawl could be mitigated by concentrating development near the train station and tapping into the sewerage laid for American Power Conversion.