Yeah Seattle Zoning and housing is all sorts of fucked up. The city is building a 40 unit subsidized housing with a daycare and 5 parking sports near me. That's not even enough parking for the daycare staff. Its highly unlikely that these people will not own cars as many of them probably moonlight as Uber drivers and the ones that dont have jobs at odd hours were public transit doesn't serve them even if they wanted to use it. So thats 40-80 new cars just dumped onto the streets taking up parking spots because some developer didn't want to pay to build a garage.
I can guarantee you it's not "the city." I used to do work on those things. It's some developer working under the aegis of the city and it's shit like this that allows them to do it. Up by my hood? They're adding 300 apartments, 200 senior living units and a hotel up on 196th... and mmmmmmmaybe they'll widen the road at some point. Yaaay.