Good Value Homes, Inc. v. City of Eagan

OPINION

PARKER, Judge.

The City of Eagan appeals from a peremptory writ of mandamus directing it to grant preliminary plat approval to Johnny Cake Ridge 5th Addition. We affirm.

FACTS

Respondent Good Value Homes, Inc., is a residential real estate development corporation that bought a parcel of land known as Outlot B of Johnny Cake Ridge 4th Addition from Orrin Thompson Homes, Inc. In the summer of 1986 Good Value Homes applied to appellant City of Eagan for preliminary approval of a plat consisting of three four-plex buildings on that land, to be known as Johnny Cake Ridge 5th Addition.

The Eagan…