Her nearest option would soon be Edgecumbe Rd because of the time she started work.
"Parking is hard to find, even if you start work at eight."
Compounding the problem in residential streets between 11th Ave and 14th Ave were long stretches of roadsides marked with no-parking lines and time restricted zones.
Kerry Burke, of Bay Office Products in Christopher St, said the demand for all-day parking was definitely a problem which he expected would get worse once the Westpac complex was fully tenanted.
The area already got the overflow from workers on the St John St side of Waihi Rd.
"Staff are having to walk a lot further than they used to."
Starting times meant some were walking half a kilometre to reach work from the nearest free all-day park. He heard that some workers in the area started early just to get a handy carpark.
Mr Burke said the council needed to consider putting angle parking along some of the streets that had wide grassy berms.
Parking is hard to find, even if you start work at eight.
"A bit of common sense and they could get a lot more parking in the area."
Danny Morgan, of Chesters Plumbing and Bathroom Centre, said walking further for an all-day carpark was a symptom of living in a bigger city.
Council transport manager Martin Parkes said all-day parking was becoming an issue in various parts of Tauranga.
No-parking lines were driven by safety concerns, with the latest changes in the 11th Ave area being the banning of parking on Norris St's grass berms behind Pak'NSave.
Mr Parkes said they got complaints from residents fed up with all-day parking outside their homes, with the area around Tauranga Hospital one of the worst.
''It is a hot spot for us.''
He said, at the end of the day, the council wanted more people to take the bus to work or consider options like cycling or car pooling.
''That is where we want to be as a city.''
The council had no plans to do anything about all-day parking around 11th Ave.