Wellington Mayor Andy Foster says the Parliament protestors have made their point and its time to move on.
He told Checkpoint the council had the power to move cars parked illegally by people protesting the government's Covid restrictions, but it won't at this stage.
Foster said fed-up residents had contacted the council to see if they could do something about the vehicles.
However, he said it had not made any moves to do this out of concern for the safety of parking wardens.
"It could escalate and we have unfortunately enough health and safety issues in respect particularly to our parking enforcement staff in a normal day-to-day events let alone putting them into that kind of situation," he said.
