It comes as councillors passed a bandaid solution on Monday night, in the hope any feedback will better inform their successors. 

Bureaucrats will have discretion over interim trial measures, beginning with changing one-hour parking spaces to two hours.

Councillors are sitting on a $905,762 war chest to resolve the CBD parking shortage, but refused to make a binding decision without the recommendations contained in a $240,000 Integrated Transport Study.

The study will not be made public before the September election, three months later than expected and 13 months since public submissions closed. 

At Monday night’s council meeting, councillor Paul Funnell cited seven similar ratepayer funded studies conducted in 1983, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2001, 2003 and 2004, as evidence of council “navel gazing” and inaction.

“We haven’t planned, we haven’t had a vision,” Cr Funnell said.

“We even knocked back a $60,000 request for another study back in 2013, because we’ve had report after report on this issue.”

Councillor Garry Hiscock wondered how much money had been poured into studies.

“This is an example of years of procrastination on parking issues,” Cr Hiscock said. “It’s a blight on this council to see such an important issue for business and the community shelved time and time again.”

Kidsons Cycles is the ninth Fitzmaurice Street business to publicly pan the parking problem.

“We've had quite a few customers booked out the front, but there’s no other options to park anywhere else,” workshop manager Rohan Taylor said.

“We’re a high-end bike shop and our customers spend time with us discussing what they require, but they’re fined for doing so.

“Directly behind our shop is an empty carpark that’s full of cars when it's not fenced off.”