Parking has been a hot issue in Uptown all summer long and it doesn’t seem to be cooling down for the winter months.

On Nov. 24, Uptown Partnership’s board of directors held a community meeting in Bankers Hill as part of their ongoing effort to increase community input and representation in parking project management.

During the meeting, Executive Director Carol Schultz and board member Jim Frost, a Bankers Hill resident, led discussion on two points: developing a method for selecting the partnership’s directors to ensure neighborhood representation as well as the necessary expertise, and a system for project selection that incorporates community-wide projects.

“We need local participation,” Frost said at the meeting. “We feel that would give us the possibility of organizing on a micro-scale to address the needs, requirements and wants of the individual communities that make up the entire Uptown district.”