The Boston Parks Commission voted unanimously on Monday to approve the takedown of large sections of White Stadium as soon as this fall to make way for the building of a new facility in a $100 million project jointly funded by the city of Boston and a women’s professional soccer team. City officials say demolition work will start after the city signs a lease with the pro soccer franchise, the Boston Unity Soccer Partners.

The 7-0 vote by commissioners followed two hours of testimony from supporters and opponents of the plan. Roughly 90 percent of the existing stadium is now set to be demolished while a distinctive curved, clamshell façade on the west grandstand will be preserved.

Icey Washington, a Parks Commissioner, said: “This will be great for the community. I am for this and hear everyone’s concerns and understand them, but our children have to travel to distant locations for track and field.”

Another commissioner, Gene Bolinger, noted his own concerns but said that in the end, it was a “respectful design. We have a feeling that some might have felt the stadium an intrusion on the park in the 1940s and now it’s an intrusion that’s in deplorable condition. Having a facility that accommodates BPS and the community is central to the proposal and that’s been accomplished.”

In a statement after the vote, Mayor Wu said the project “will greatly expand access for BPS students and the general public, add new public amenities, open up new green space to the park, and provide the resources to professionally manage and maintain the stadium for generations to come.”

Franklin Park Defenders, a group of neighbors who have filed a lawsuit that seeks to stop the project, continued to object.

“Without any state environmental reviews, or answers to countless questions, the City of Boston is poised to tear down White Stadium in just a few weeks,” read their statement. “In its place they plan to erect an 11,000-seat professional sports and entertainment complex that will dominate Franklin Park and its surrounding communities to satisfy the needs of for-profit sports investors.”

Four provisos were attached to the panel’s decision that included signing a lease with Boston Unity before starting demolition, coming back to the commission with full construction drawings, keeping Parks staff engaged in the planning, and holding a tree removal hearing soon.