City Councilor Michelle Wu is echoing many previous mayoral hopefuls, initiating the call on Monday to abolish the long-controversial Boston Planning & Development Agency.

“The BPDA gives concentrated control over development to the Mayor of Boston with little to no accountability, giving well-connected developers outsized access to influence decision-making and incentivizing an unhealthy political interdependence,” Wu wrote in a 54-page report her office is rolling out on Monday.

In “scandal after scandal, audit after audit,” she added, “the agency has lost the trust of the community to carry out the planning process with competence and integrity.”

Wu, a 34-year-old at-large city councilor who’s seen as a possible future mayoral candidate, says the city needs to bring the planning and development mechanisms under the BPDA back under city government. The BPDA, which sits on the top floor of City Hall, currently answers only to five board members hand-picked by the mayor.

The report lays out a history of the agency and calls for the council — which doesn’t have the authority to unilaterally abolish the BPDA — to take steps to exert more influence over development and to shift some of the agency’s duties away from it.

The BPDA — or Boston Redevelopment Authority, or BRA, as it was long known — has been a political punching bag for many of the six decades since its inception and its subsequent bulldozing of the city’s old West End neighborhood. Mayors Kevin White and Ray Flynn ran on doing away with the BRA in the 1970s and ’80s, and mayoral hopeful Tito Jackson just two years ago vowed to abolish the agency, which has attempted to rehab its image under current chief Brian Golden.

Current Mayor Martin Walsh jumped on the BRA-bashing bandwagon in his first successful run for mayor, in 2013, promising sweeping reforms to open the BRA up and make it more responsive.

Wu’s report notes Walsh’s previous BPDA pledges, and says, “These commitments remain unfulfilled.”

Wu, often discussed as a likely challenger to Walsh, is slamming the BPDA as an unresponsive “black box” that favors connected developers and interests over neighborhood voices. Wu told the Herald she and her staff have been working on the report for about a year, adding that during her current re-election campaign, she hears often from local people about issues she says all tie back to planning and development.

“Every neighborhood across the city, residents are stressed and anxious about traffic getting worse, how expensive it is to think about renting and buying a home in the city, how we’re planning on addressing flooding and planning for extreme weather,” said Wu, who’s chaired the council committee on planning and development for the past two years.

Wu in an interview wouldn’t touch a question about whether this, like her MBTA organizing earlier this year, is another step toward making a run for the the big office on the other side of City Hall’s fifth floor.

“This is a report back from my work over the course of this term,” Wu said.