Ogo Associates v. City of Torrance

Opinion

FLEMING, Acting P. J.

Ogo Associates (Ogo), a partnership, and Torrance Properties (Properties), a limited partnership, appeal a judgment of the superior court denying their petition for a writ of mandate to compel the City of Torrance (Torrance) to issue Ogo a permit to build a federally financed 86-unit apartment project for persons with low incomes.

Properties owns approximately three acres of undeveloped land in an area of Torrance known as Victor Precinct. Land use in the Victor Precinct is mixed—apartment house, agricultural, light manufacturing, institutional —and much of the land…