“The Wu administration’s unwillingness to listen to its most vulnerable residents continues a pattern of racist governance that Black Bostonians are all too familiar with,” Reggie Stewart, a Dorchester resident and chair of the Environmental and Climate Justice Committee of the Boston NAACP, said at a press conference Friday morning about the Blue Hill Ave. project. “We support better public transit, safer streets, and real investments in communities that have been neglected for generations, but investment does not mean forcing a harmful project onto Black neighborhoods after the people who live, work, worship, and run businesses there have said no to it.”

Residents are concerned the road redesign will decrease parking along Blue Hill Avenue, limit travel to one lane in spots, and remove trees along the thoroughfare, which could lead to more pollution and add to an already heightened rate of respiratory ailments among nearby residents.

What the community needs, according to the Coalition for Responsible Transportation Policy, which requested the revocation of federal funding, is for the city to lobby the MBTA to extend the Orange Line to Mattapan Square as well as beyond Forest Hills into Roslindale.

A light rail was supposed to be installed after the elevated Orange Line was taken down in the 1980s, coalition members said, but the Silver Line bus route was eventually added instead — one of many transportation-related “broken promises” to the Black community, they said.

Federal money for Blue Hill Avenue has been scrapped before. In 2009, the state withdrew an application for a federal grant for the 28X rapid transit bus line following significant opposition from the community.

In a statement, the Wu administration said the plan for roadway improvements would continue to evolve during the ongoing community process.

“The city is working closely with community leaders, residents, and the MBTA to deploy federally-awarded funds to make much-needed improvements to Blue Hill Avenue, beautify the roadway, speed up commutes, and expand opportunities for small businesses along the corridor,” city officials said in a statement.

The US Department of Transportation did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Russell Holmes, the state representative from Mattapan who supports the proposed developments around his neighborhood, pushed back against the idea that they were being built on the backs of the Black community.

“All of these developments are being done for Black people,” he said. “The rest of this city, it’s exploding in development, and for so long it felt like there was … nothing happening in the communities that I represent.”

“Black people need to also be a part of this development and a part of this economic change that’s happening in Boston.”

But on Thursday night, city officials got an earful during a contentious meeting in Dorchester about the transportation plan for the White Stadium redevelopment in Franklin Park. Residents were upset at the plan to restrict parking on game days and require visitors to Franklin Park to request parking passes, according to the Dorchester Reporter, while people in surrounding neighborhoods would have to get resident permits to park in front of their homes.

“People like me, particularly Black people like me, who are homeowners, who pay taxes, cannot be anywhere around here celebrating birthdays, a regular cookout, a Little League team … on game days,” one woman at the meeting said.

The city’s $325 million bid to redevelop White Stadium for a professional women’s soccer team is facing a legal challenge over whether it’s an impermissible use of a public park. The question before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court is whether the project is a renovation of an aging facility or a new arena altogether.

Dorchester residents are also up in arms about a proposal from the state to build a campus for hundreds of people dealing with mental illness and addiction at Shattuck Hospital, adjacent to Franklin Park. One resident called the plan “a new form of geographic redlining” that would concentrate social burdens in the city’s majority-minority neighborhoods.

Speaking at the press conference about Blue Hill Avenue, Louis Elisa, president of the Garrison-Trotter Neighborhood Association said all those projects would be built “on the backs of the Black community.”

“Stop trying to fool people that this means anything to the residents of Roxbury, Dorchester, Mattapan,” Elisa said of the bus lane. “This proposed project, which will bring a lot of money to the city of Boston for construction, will do very little to improve the quality of life along Blue Hill Avenue.”

“Stop trying to destroy the Black community,” he added. “Stop the aggressive takeover.”

A project to improve sidewalks and add bike lanes to Cummins Highway in Mattapan, which has taken years and caused major disruptions, has added to worries about construction projects in the area.

The coalition opposed to the bus lane said the “last straw” was a meeting Mayor Michelle Wu held a few weeks ago about the Blue Hill Avenue revitalization without inviting community advocates or two city councilors, Brian Worrell and Miniard Culpepper, who have been critical of the project.

The coalition said Wu hasn’t met with residents or business owners in person about their concerns, despite the city holding 100-plus meetings about it in the past several years.

“I just want you to understand the extraordinary moment that we’re in, where a predominantly Black community … out of sheer frustration, have thrown up their hands and decided to prevail to the Trump administration for relief,” Dianne Wilkerson, a Dorchester resident and former state senator, said at the press conference.

Asking for the federal funds to be withdrawn, she said, is the only way to get the city to the table to discuss a plan that will help the community.

Globe correspondent Chloe Pisani contributed to this report.

Katie Johnston can be reached at katie.johnston@globe.com. Follow her @ktkjohnston.