It’s funny that this is being portrayed as example of abundance being stymied.
This is more about abundance of cars, or abundance of car subsidy in the form of free land and infra. Deregulation of cars and car infra while maintaining the stranglehold on non vehicle land uses.
In a Seattle where land use had actually been reformed, no landowner, public or private, would choose a glorified parking lot as a good use of land. They would build something more important to the public - as evidenced by prices - such as housing or office or some other structure.
Living in a less dense place where the municipal electric has set up EV chargers in public parking lots and it all seems sensible, this hadn't occurred to me. But it's another astute point, and ties right into how this article doesn't analyze the actual hangups. Maybe the city has delayed this project of creating a new 8-space parking lot in favor of building multi-story or underground parking garages (which can also have EV charging spots).