23: The 20 Worst Ideas in Newport Beach History (Part 2)

Trying to develop Corona del Mar in the early 20th Century.
Planning for Fashion Island to be an indoor shopping center.
Proposing to jam 80,000 residents (for context, Newport's
population today is about 87,000) into the Newport Coast. Newport
Beach, in one form or another, has been around for more than 150
years, and over that time, there's been some terrible ideas
floated, and some even implemented. In the second installment of
this three-part episode, we count down the 12th to the 7th worst
ideas in Newport Beach history.