Either that or they'll set up a charging booth of some sort.
However, while driving by I noticed there were still a few rows of cars hugging the outer edges of the great space so all is not completely lost yet.
There are a lot of cars around these days, no doubt about that, and that growing fleet has put pressure or roads and parking.
When they built most of the towns and cities across the land they did so at a time when it was more a case of finding somewhere to hitch the horse rather than park up the Ford.
So the buildings were built and the pipes were laid and the footpaths installed. The roads were modest affairs. And in many cases they still are.
They are effectively as wide as they can ever be, unless all the buildings along one side are pulled down to make them wider.
You can widen highways but urban roads are literally set in concrete. Or tarseal, or whatever.
There are many spots now which have been yellow-lined for safety reasons.
To keep parked cars away so the roadway can be wider.
Which is fine and dandy, except those cars have to go somewhere.
Some will argue that public transport needs to be utilised more in preference to taking one's own vehicle, but that means movements are dictated by firm schedules.
If you need to head off somewhere for some reason and the car is at home in the garage you have another dilemma to confront.
Cars are, basically, independence.
You can come and go as you decide and you can load up as much shopping and stuff as you like.
Others will argue that people need to walk more, but in many cases the workplace is not exactly a three-minute stroll away, and, besides, with the growing shortage of parking spaces close to the inner city people are tending to walk a lot more anyway.
The "railway land" is the second large slice of parking terrain to run out of meter time.
The design and landscaping refurbishment of the Marine Parade between the old Marineland and the old skating rink took away a fair old number as well.
Since then I've not been surprised to see a growing line of parked-up cars creeping ever closer to the port gates and Breakwater Rd, and further south along Marine Parade.
There's a couple of parking buildings in town but they appear to have been capped at just one floor.
The bottom line though is people don't want to pay too much to park up for a day, which is fair enough, and the council has removed restrictive time limits on about 100 parking spots near the CBD, so that's a start.
I've got an idea.
The old council buildings and library are vacant and appear destined and doomed to remain that way judging by the inactivity surrounding their futures.
So level them and make a great big carpark.
You would get 500 parks on there, and charge just $2 for a whole day's parking.
That's a grand a day -$365,000 a year.
And no maintenance. What a white-hot deal.
Yes, all right, I won't quit the day job and take up a financial consultancy business just yet.
Let's park that up for now, although whilst on the subject of cars is it not remarkable how the automobile has evolved.
A while ago the rear plastic lens cover of a rear light got broken. Not the light, just the plastic cover.
But hey, guess what, these days they come as a "sealed unit" so the whole undamaged slab (apart from the broken plastic cover) had to be replaced at a ridiculous cost.
Forty years ago you would have unscrewed two fitting screws and popped a new plastic cover onfor about $15.
Today? Try $500.
Ah, the price of automobile evolution huh?