Thanks to Jean Nassif, visitors to Parramatta have fewer spots to park their cars; fortunately for the property developer, he has ample garage room for the family’s new yellow Lamborghini.

Mr Nassif’s company, Toplace, has been in a stalemate with the City of Parramatta council over a major residential development in which Toplace dug three basement levels for which it did not have approval.

The stand-off has meant that Parramatta locals and visitors do not yet have access to more than 700 CBD parking spots, which were to be returned for public use in return for Toplace’s development rights.

But the debacle of the non-compliant basement is not Mr Nassif’s only recent worry. In the past week, a video posted to social media depicting the moment in which he gifts a new car to his wife Nissy Nassif has become something of a meme, opening up his developer lifestyle to fun at its gauche expense.