Boston Medical Center officials admit the scope of their proposed Shattuck Hospital redevelopment needs to be reduced, but community members remain unsettled about the project as a whole.

BMC initially looked to replace the Franklin Park-based hospital with three buildings that could offer up to 446 treatment beds and 405 units of supportive housing for individuals and families, far exceeding the 75-to-100 minimum requirement the state set in a response for proposals.

But the number of housing units will come down even though details around a targeted goal remain in the works, BMC officials made known during a City Council hearing on Thursday.

“Let me underscore, we are making modifications, and we are working on those modifications as a coalition,” said Rob Koenig, director of strategic programs. “We have been hearing feedback and recognize, in particular, that the scale needs to come down.”

Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson, whose district includes Franklin Park, said she sponsored the hearing after receiving more than 100 emails and calls from residents in opposition of the project while hearing from just a dozen in support.

“The community should not be gas lit to feel they don’t care about housing because nothing is going to happen if BMC doesn’t come and save the day,” she said. “That’s not the case.”

BMC is spearheading the proposal with six other city-based health and social service providers. The Healey administration last June provisionally designated the coalition for redevelopment of the Shattuck campus, meaning project plans could start being refined and officials could begin engaging with the community.

If the project is approved, with a decision remaining far away, the multifaceted campus would feature clinical services, emergency shelters and permanent supportive housing.

Services would be integrated, and inpatient and outpatient clinical services would prioritize longer-term care for people recovering from opioid use, with those in acute treatment accounting for less than 10% of the population on site.

Officials have tried to alleviate community concerns that the property would not become the next Mass and Cass, a drug-addled homeless encampment that the city long dealt with before ordering all tens down last November.

Residents and community groups are combining forces through the Coalition for Region Wide Services Beyond Franklin Park, a group of more than 500 stakeholders who believe the project will lead to “irreparable harm to

Opponents argue Franklin Park has already been dealing with issues similarly seen at Mass and Cass – drug deals, needles and trash spewed across the park, and individuals engaging in sex.

“People have stopped walking their dogs in the park because their dogs got pricked. Never mind allowing your children to get out and play,” said former state Sen. Diane Wilkerson, a Roxbury activist. “The police? They can’t handle that.”

Since before submitting their response to the state’s RFP in the summer of 2022, BMC officials have been in continuous engagements with the Franklin Park Coalition about public service, safety and response, said Ramon Soto, director of government advocacy.

Soto highlighted how there’d be consistent monitoring around the park, especially in the evening and overnight hours. A safety plan remains in the works, officials said Thursday.

Offerings planned for the proposed site have been successful at the current Shattuck campus for many years, Koenig said. But the project looks to further improve integration of services as well as housing security for the homeless, he said.

Officials also highlighted Thursday that they’ll be factoring in how a state permit that Mayor Michelle Wu received last August will allow the city to move forward with its years-long plan to tackle the opioid epidemic by building a bridge out to a future 35-acre addiction-recovery campus on Long Island.

“Having the early stage services on Long Island and then having people move to the Shattuck makes a lot of sense,” said Christine Pace, medical director of population health services, “especially given the ways that the Shattuck is really closely knit to the surrounding community.”

Shattuck Hospital could be redeveloped under a proposal put forth by Boston Medical Center. (Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald)