Boston Bluebikes will install between five and seven new bike-share locations throughout the South End this fall, city officials announced at an open house community meeting on July 22.

Residents at the meeting had mixed reviews of the expansion. Those who bike frequently approved of it, while many others raised concerns about parking and street space.

“Bike-share especially is really popular, and it’s widely utilized,” said Kim Foltz, the director of the Boston Bikes program. “Lots and lots of residents and workers and visitors in our city really love it. We’re taking space where cars typically park.

That’s something that we’re going hear concerns about, and that we really try to minimize. We always take decisions about how curb space is utilized in the city very seriously.”

The South End already has over 20 Bluebike rental locations, most of which Foltz said are on sidewalks. The city’s bikes program has proposed 11 possible locations to fill in the gaps between existing stops, which are currently open to the public for comment. The proposed stops are concentrated largely on Massachusetts Avenue, Huntington Avenue, and Tremont Street in Shawmut.

“These are very initial sites,” Foltz said.

“Maybe one of the sites is at a location where a school bus picks up every day, and it’s a really busy curb or corner, so that’s not going to be a good spot. We might not know that. So hearing that kind of feedback, for example, is really important for us.”

South End residents have until the end of August to comment on the 11 proposed locations, either at a virtual open house on August 14, or via a survey on the Boston Bikes webpage. The city will then narrow down its finalized locations and begin installation in October. Bluebike locations must leave plenty of room for pedestrians on the sidewalk. Though the city prefers to have Bluebike stops off the street, the width of the sidewalk sometimes means moving them into the road.

For that reason, many South End residents disagree with the city’s intensive expansion of bike infrastructure. “We are not all agreed,” said Carol Blair, president of the Chester Square Neighborhood Association, who has worked in transportation planning.

“We have people who want to see safer places for bikes, and people who don't ride bikes and are afraid of losing space on the road. It’s all about allocation. A lot of people think of it as a zero-sum game. ‘If somebody else gets something, then we lose it.’”

Other residents who frequently use Bluebikes, however, are excited about the development.

“I primarily commute by bike, and I think the biggest issue for most people is when you either can’t get a bike because they’re all taken, or when all the docks are full,” said Drew Nelson, who has lived in the South End for nine years. “I think it’s great that they're expanding this program. My personal opinion is that it’s public space and should be used for public amenities.”