Boston College is facing continued opposition from the city to its plan to build undergraduate housing on 65 acres of nearby land that it recently bought from the Archdiocese of Boston.

The Boston Redevelopment Authority, which must approve the project, released a review of the campus extension on Wednesday that called on the college to reconsider building dorms on the land, according to The Boston Globe.

The mayor of Boston, Thomas M. Menino, also said the college should restrict dormitories to its traditional campus, although he had earlier called on the college to increase its on-campus housing capacity, according to the Globe. Proposals for an athletics field house, a baseball field, and a parking facility have received less...