Coastal Zone Management--The Tidelands: Legislative Apathy vs. Judicial Concern

The following three cases, City of Long Beach v. Mansell, Candlestick Properties, Inc. v. San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, and Zabel v. Tabb, are important recent developments in the rapidly expanding area of the law of coastal zone management. The purpose of this Article is to present each of the cases individually, then to demonstrate how the inter-relation of the three cases can and probably will be utilized by the courts to effectuate legislative policy.