The weather outside may be chilly, but there may be some warmer temperatures inside the council chambers in Black Diamond during the next week.

Several high profile issues will be before the council beginning at 10 a.m. Monday when three of the members will consider the ordinances approving the development agreements for the YarrowBay master planned developments, The Villages and Lawson Hills.

The agreements are being considered in a quasi-judicial hearing by council members Bill Boston, Kristine Hanson and Leih Mulvihill.

At the Thursday City Council meeting the full council will have two issue to wrestle. First is a public hearing concerning a petition for a community facilities district submitted by YarrowBay.

The district would fund 10 projects related to master planned developments.

If the council decides to approve the district it would be the first in the state.

A facilities district provides a funding options, but the process is been surrounded with considerably controversy.

A second issue before the City Council Thursday will be a comprehensive plan amendment changing the density calculation for developments from gross acres to net.

The proposed change is being presented by Councilman Craig Goodwin. An example provided by Goodwin in a document he presented to the city would change a 100 acre development from 13.3 homes based on gross acreage  calculation to four with 60 acres in commercial, 10 in sensitive areas and 30 in residential.

The development agreements are in the final stages and it the three council members will be considering ordinances to approve the agreements Monday.

The  development agreement hearings are before three council member because other two  Bill Saas and Craig Goodwin, chose to remove themselves from the proceedings.

With more than 6,000 residences planned in the two master planned developments, along with commercial, parks and open space, the current population of 4,000 is expected to grow to about 20,000.

The entire process has taken on another layer of complexity following the November general election. Two incumbents, Hanson and Mulvihill, were voted out of office by more than a 40 percent margin.

The other member considering the development agreements, Boston, is retiring from the council and Joe May won the election for his seat.

Ron Taylor beat Mulvihill and Tammie Boxx-Deady won over Hanson.

May is one of the appellants who initially challenged the projects during the MPD ordinance hearings in 2010.

May said concerning the many YarrowBay issues before the current council January is an unknown for the new council.

“I really don’t know,” May said. “It could be cleaned up for wide open. It could be what we’ve been facing all over again ot it could be all done.”