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Residents are pushing back on a state plan to transform the former hospital into something unprecedented: a massive public health campus in Franklin Park.

Officials with Gov. Maura Healey’s administration on Wednesday announced a coalition led by Boston Medical Center (BMC) has been awarded provisional designation to develop a recovery campus on the existing 13-acre Shattuck Hospital site on Morton Street. The plans call for more than 400 units of supportive housing and 120 emergency beds.

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The goal of a fully green and healthier Mattapan will be several bus routes closer to reality when the Arborway Yard bus garage opens in Jamaica Plain in 2027, a move that T officials say will allow every route serving Mattapan to have fully electric buses, free of the diesel fuel pollution of existing vehicles. A handful of Dorchester routes, such as the #22 on Talbot Avenue

City planning officials told the Greater Mattapan Neighborhood Council (GMNC) at a Monday meeting that after receiving a $15 million federal grant, they are ready to move toward the next level of re-designing Blue Hill Avenue from Mattapan Square to Warren Street while renewing discussions with the community once again.

On April 13, a public hearing was hosted by the state’s Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance (DCAMM) to present the project proposal for the Shattuck Hospital campus on Morton St. in Jamaica Plain, and to allow for public comment on the proposal.  The Shattuck Hospital plans to move to the Newtown Pavilion in the South End in 2024, and throughout a several year process, the community has been outspoken about what should be done with the campus site. The proposed plan includes...