The wood framing and caution tape boxed in by orange traffic barriers on Cartagena Street outside Lola’s Mexican Cuisine in Bixby Knolls marks off what’s expected to be the first permanent parklet added in Long Beach after the City Council announced an end date to the city’s temporary, pandemic-inspired outdoor dining program earlier this year. - ADVERTISEMENT - Luis Navarro, who owns the restaurant with his wife, Brenda, said it’s special that Lola’s location on Fourth Street installed the city’s first permanent outdoor-dinning parklet nearly a decade ago, and now the location at Atlantic Avenue and Cartagena appears to be the first post-pandemic addition of permanent outdoor dining spaces.