Allen v. City of Mendota Heights

OPINION

TOUSSAINT, Chief Judge.

In this mandamus proceeding, appellants argue that their applications for permits to respondent City of Mendota Heights were automatically approved under Minn.Stat. § 15.99, subd. 2 (2004). Upon a citizens’ petition for environmental review of appellants’ project, the city tolled the running of the automatic approval period. Because the city and district court correctly interpreted an express exception in section 15.99 to allow for tolling of the deadline for agency action on the applications pending the environmental review process under the Minnesota…