With large developments rising in and around Dorchester and residents continuing to weigh the impacts on the neighborhood, officials from the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) offered general updates on major Dorchester projects and planning studies to the Columbia-Savin Hill Civic Association at its monthly meeting Monday night.

Tad Read, BPDA’s senior deputy director of strategic planning, and Michael Christopher, deputy director of development review and government affairs, said that the meeting was in line with the agency’s renewed emphasis on community engagement.

The Glover’s Corner area, members were told, is on the docket for a BPDA planning study expected to be undertaken next year. Studies in South Boston, Roxbury, and Jamaica Plain, which are ongoing, are meant to solicit community feedback for a holistic review of neighborhood areas with recommendations to guide development and investment.

“We’re still spread pretty thin,” Christopher said. “So once we conclude those three planning studies, Glover’s Corner will be the next on the agenda.”

The Dot Block parcel, which is in the middle of the planning area, will not be included in the study. The process is “robust,” Christopher said, and is largely community-driven. Read guessed the Glover’s study would take about a year, “slightly accelerated because there’s enormous demand for housing.”

These sorts of studies have been met with skepticism at civic meetings. Columbia-Savin Hill members still raise the specter of the Columbia Point Master Plan, a three-year process ending with recommendations that many feel have been ignored by city planners when approving development in the area. Read, who worked on that plan, said it is “still in effect today.”

John Walsh of the civic group said Read sold him on the idea that “you don’t just deal with this parcel, this parcel, this parcel, this parcel, separately. What you try to do is take your arms around them and say, we’re going to deal with all of Columbia Point, all of Morrissey Boulevard.” He added, “Now that makes tremendous sense, and I think we put together a real nice document, which by the way this civic association voted to support and endorse, and what happened was the first thing out the door was totally inconsistent with the master plan.”

Two major parcels along Morrissey Boulevard addressed in the plan remain points of discussion. The 16-acre Boston Globe site’s sale to David Ridini of New York-based Center Court Properties is not yet finalized, according to Christopher. Car magnate Herb Chambers has owned an abutting parcel for four years and has talked about plans for a five-story car dealership. He submitting a Letter of Intent to the BPDA earlier this fall. Civic members have vocally opposed a car dealership at that location.

BPDA officials point out that a developer can freely choose when to begin the public process for projects on privately owned land, which may be altered as the community weighs in. “You know, a developer has the right to buy the land, and there’s no law that says they have to come to us,” Christopher said. “I know that can be frustrating from a community standpoint.”

The buyer of the former Russell Engineering Works properties in Savin Hill, China-based businessman Gerald Chan’s Serama LLC, has not come in to meet with the BPDA. Chan purchased 9 Dewar St. in May 2016 for $5.25 million.

Association member Bruce Shatswell asked why the city appears to be encouraging large transit-oriented developments projects in light of persistent systemic failings of transit options. With the Fairmount Line delivering substandard service and the Red Line increasingly taxed, he daid, “you’re talking about building additional buildings and expect residents, with fewer parking spaces, to use public transportation.”

Association members aired several concerns: gridlocked streets from inadequate parking requirements around transit-oriented developments; rising water levels and environmental resiliency; and the question of what sort of coordination is taking place between planning, development, transportation, and regulatory bodies.

“We’re very aware, keenly aware, of all of those issues,” Read said. “Like you, we have been frustrated that there are not the public funds available to expand and improve the T. We’re all concerned about that.”

He noted that bus-rapid transit, which allocates specific bus-only routes for city buses, is one option as the Red Line approaches capacity. Overall car ownership is expected to decrease over the next few decades, as well, he added.

To the residents frustrated with the city’s piecemeal approach to development, the BPDA representatives said the Imagine Boston 2030 campaign addressed most of these concerns and will act as a guide for a broader planning initiative.