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-5- going underground when all the existing posts had to be moved back for the County Road D project. If it had been as easy as some people had assumed for the utility • company to provide underground service, that would certainly have been one of the places where NSP would have done so, the Councilmember observed. The Mayor concurred, reiterating that he had worked for ten years to get North- western Bell to bury their lines underground when they changed the service on 33rd Avenue N.E. , only to have the cable T.V. company put up wires where the phone lines were. Motion by Councilmember Enrooth and seconded by Councilmember Makowske to approve the final platting for the Hertog Floral Addition, a seven lot subdivision between 33rd and 32nd Avenues N.E. , east of Edward Street, as presented in the final plat for the project, subject to final approval by the City Attorney. In approving the final platting, the Council finds, as did the Planning Commission, that: 1 . Both the Planning Commission and Council had held public hearings on the pre- liminary platting; 2. No one had appeared at either hearing or at the subsequent considerations of the final platting to object to the proposed platting; 3. The subject plat generally conforms to municipal standards and where lots are smaller than required, many similar lots with small frontages, depths, and land area, have been platted and developed in the adjacent locality; 4. The final platting specifically identifies the utility and drainage easements which the City would have access, which had been a concern of the Planning Commission; and 5. The platting requires placement of all utilities underground as recommended by the City's Comprehensive Plan. Motion carried unanimously. Commissioner Wagner concluded his report by observing that the sign on the Curtis Mathes store, which had prompted a great deal of discussion during the Commission meeting, had finally been taken down. The Commissioner remained as an observor for the rest of the meeting. The Mayor said he had that morning attended a meeting of north suburban mayors and elected officials from 17 cities, including Minneapolis and St. Paul , where the impact of the proposed mega-mall in Bloomington would have on other metropolitan municipalities was explored at length.. He said this coalition wanted to take no sides with either Minneapolis or Bloomington, but the general perception seemed to be that there had been too little time taken to assess the exact impact a 1 .5 billion dollar project with the concessions which were being proposed would have on - other communities in regard to the fiscal disparities distributions and tax incre- ments. Mayor Sundland indicated computer printouts indicated that St. Anthony is now in the hole by about $4,000 in the proposal to exempt the project in fiscal disparities. If Bloomington were not exempted from participation in that program, • the City could expect to get back $37,511 if the project were developed as proposed. He said one of the points made at the meeting had been that the cost of providing