There needs to be away to have a framework for development, preserve the extant uses and inserting new buildings and uses into underutilized land. Encouraging, especially, smaller developers and more experimental types of architecture to coexist in the space that is there. Keeping footprints small and the rhythm of the buildings natural. Perhaps create a zoning overlay that allowed for things like Live/Work and smaller ground floor retail and taller buildings to mix in with the smaller buildings while limiting chain stores. It would be better, too, if all these places had actual city governments with more direct voter reprsentation instead of relying on large county bureaucracies to make these plans, but that’s a southern governmental structure that I don’t expect to change soon.