Susan L. FRENCH VIRGINIA MARINE RESOURCES COMMISSION

KELSEY, Judge.

The Virginia Marine Resources Commission (VMRC) granted an after-the-fact permit to a landowner to build an access bridge across a shallow mountain creek. Susan L. French, a neighbor of the permitee, unsuccessfully contested the issuance of the permit during the administrative process and on appeal to the circuit court. French now appeals to us, claiming that the VMRC violated her procedural due process rights and failed to exercise properly its discretion in issuing the permit. We disagree and affirm.

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This case comes to us, as it did to the circuit court, pursuant to judicial…