Street parking question in West Seattle?

I was visiting a friend in a very residential part of West Seattle, and I parallel parked my car at the street curb. My friend lives on a *very* wide road without much through traffic and I was careful not to block any driveways; I was just parked in front of some yard. (I live in Queen Anne and that kind of street parking is common there.)

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Their neighbor came over to complain, and my friend asked me to repark (my friend dropped their voice to an undertone and kinda muttered “hey sorry this neighbor just hates people parking in front of his yard” lol), and obviously I don’t want to mess up their relationship with their neighbors, so I went to repark.

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But weirdly the neighbor followed me to my car and said “Hey, is this you?” and when I said “Yes, sorry, I’m reparking,” he says, “Oh, you see, you can’t street park on this street, it’s a safety concern, the emergency vehicles can’t get through,” and privately I’m like ???? because there’s no “no parking” signs, nothing to indicate this isn’t allowed, and this road is SO wide; even if people were street parking it’d be wider than any street in Queen Anne. But I don’t want to argue with my friend’s neighbor, so I just say, “Gotcha, in Queen Anne this sort of parking is OK, but I didn’t know that about here, so I’ll just repark, no problem,” and then he… keeps going on? Like “oh you see we had council meetings about it, and other areas it’s okay, it’s just this road, this goes back years. . .” Like I’m confused because he’s standing between me and my car? But I already agreed to repark so why is he still talking, like, does he want me to throw myself on my knees before him on something? He keeps saying he doesn’t want to impose and yada yada when he already is getting what he wants! So eventually I maneuver past him and get in my car and say “sorry for the trouble,” and I repark, and that’s the end of it, but WHAT a weird interaction.

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I looked at a Seattle parking map the day after and I didn’t see any restrictions on that street. So was this guy just making all that up? And how was I supposed to respond to him? I found the whole interaction so confusing I feel like I must be missing something.