BOSTON -- Community leaders are meeting Tuesday night to discuss an issue that has divided their Boston neighborhood.

NewsCenter 5's Randy Price reported that it has pitted neighbor against neighbor.

Upton Street is a beautiful tree lined street of brick townhouses. Now, there are signs protesting three townhouses slated to be remodeled into transitional housing for the Pine Street Inn -- a homeless shelter in Boston. A battle has been escalating for two years.

"An issue that's divided a neighborhood in a way that's totally unfortunate," resident Tom Parks said.

Parks has lived on the street for 21 years. He supports the project, as do many and is sorry it has come to this.

The three buildings would be converted to 30 apartments with on-site supervision by Pine Street.

But to the claim of many that Pine Street has been uncooperative with the neighborhood, Pine Street's president said it was originally going to be 45 apartments.

"The community said, 'Too much,'" Pine Street President Lyndia Downie said. "We went down to 37, they said, 'Too much.' We went down to 30."

The project is on hold for the moment while Pine Street goes through the hearing process.