Labor councillor Jay Suvaal raised the issue in a notice of motion at Wednesday's meeting after "significant concern" in the community following the policy's adoption in February this year.

The notice of motion requested the general manager to provide a report outlining the steps required to repeal the policy, while noting the confusion it caused in the community.

Cr Suvaal said the policy isn't needed, as parking rules are set by the NSW Government, and that the government should review the rules to better suit regional communities.

"We are in a position that we can't change the policy, because we can't change the road rules - so why would we have a policy of our own?" Cr Suvaal said.

Independent councillor Ian Olsen supported the notice of motion, but said it was a "good publicity stunt" by Cr Suvaal.

"Whether we've got the policy or not, it's not going to make any difference," Cr Olsen said.

"The parking policy wouldn't have come back to council if it wasn't for my motion back in August 2020, when I asked it to be reviewed because of the confusion (around double parking)."

Cr Olsen referred to a previous notice of motion of his in March 2017, which requested that council "contact our state member to see if we could seek support to have the NSW Roads Act amended to allow parking on footpaths where room allows without hindering pedestrian traffic, and requesting his support to make representations to the NSW Government on Council's behalf".

"Unfortunately I was the only one that supported it, now we've wasted four years," he said.

"It was common sense back then, and it's common sense now.

"We don't have to have a parking enforcement policy, because the rangers are still going to do the same thing.

"What we have to do is hound the state government, and get them to consider that we aren't a major city like Sydney where you can't park on the footpath.

"If we had wider roads, it would eliminate a lot of our issues with parking.

"If we had a better parking policy or if we had better state rules, it would make it easier.

"At the end of the day, our rangers - if they see someone illegally parked, or get a report of someone illegally parked - they will book them, whether we have a policy or not. I'm quite happy to have this moved, but it's not going to change anything."

Councillor Di Fitzgibbon (Labor) said repealing the policy may encourage other regional councils to do the same.

"I'm sure there are lots of regional areas that face this same issue with parking," she said.

"The policy is not worth the paper it's written on.

"The state government lays down these rules to protect the pedestrian - and I fully understand that - but they need to consider the lay of the land, people entering and exiting their vehicles safely, and the safety of parking those vehicles.

"We've acted on the community feedback - and hopefully all of those people will now approach their state member, because he needs to lobby the state government to change these rules which do not fit many local regional council areas."

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