Lake Union Drydock Co. v. Deparment of Natural Resources

¶1 Lake Union Drydock Company, Inc., appeals the trial court’s affirmance of the Department of Natural Resources’ (DNR) administrative decision to use an alternative upland tax parcel to calculate its rental rate for land it leases to Lake Union Drydock. Lake Union Drydock argues that the DNR’s action was contrary to law, or arbitrary and capricious. We disagree and affirm.

Hunt, J.

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I. Lease Background

¶2 Lake Union Drydock Company, Inc., leases1 approximately 2.8 acres of submerged state-owned aquatic lands adjacent to a 7.87-acre parcel that it owns along the shore of Lake Union in…