Sounds more like they used up one lane worth of space to add a bike lane to both sides of the road which if its two bike lanes one on each side both half a lane wide that with parked cars tucked in tight along side that does mean they are pretty much door zone bike lanes. At least that's how I "read in-between the lines" of the OP.

Agreed pictures would be nice but a more detailed written description would suffice.

Personally I'm opposed to bike lanes being on any road with road side parking regardless of width. My view being basically if automobile traffic can slow or stop and wait for someone to parallel park they can certainly also slow down and wait a little bit for a bicycle using the main traffic lanes as well and that if the speeds are low enough for roadside parking to be safe and sane they are also low enough for cycling in traffic in the main lanes to also be safe and sane and if not then they need to entirely remove the road-side parking which makes plenty of room for bike lanes coincidentally.

Also, if you are correct that the bike lane is a full vehicle lane width then why not also allow cars to use it as well and why restrict it to bikes only? I'd much rather cycle down a four lane road with road-side parking "taking the lane" in the slow lane of the two lanes going each direction then cycle down either:
----- a two lane road with road-side parking which makes it so that cars can't just easily move into the fast lane to pass me and its either risk getting them mad by "taking the lane" or put myself into a close pass situation trying to share the lane sandwiched between close passers and parked cars.
----- or a two lane road with both full lane width bike lanes and road-side parking where vehicle traffic has to constantly cross the bike lane to park and pull out of parking spaces making for multiple side-swipe hazards from both sides and cramming automobile traffic into only two lanes one each direction and blocking things up while leaving an open bike lane as a temptation for the most aggressive motorists to try to use as a speedway shortcut.

Putting the bike lane on the outside of the parking lanes is a potential solution using the parked cars as a buffer barrier but it needs to be wide enough not to still be a door zone lane and unless every intersections is properly signaled to prevent conflicts between automobile traffic in the main lanes and the buffered bike lanes which also have visibility issues both to see and be seen that can create another set of safety issues at the intersections.

Done correctly bike lanes both buffered and non-buffered can work, and I certainly support them when done correctly, but I rarely see them done correctly and often times they are more of a way of further marginalizing cyclists and not about safety for cyclists but rather about "getting cyclists out of the main part of the road and out of the way and out of the sight of automobile drivers".