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Show Layton nettled by Bt. space needle commence and how his company would proceed to build the needle, Beacon replied, "We'll begin at the beginning and proceed one Lego at a time." Mueller Park will be the site of the gargantuan structure. Construction Construc-tion is set to begin within a month and will be completed by the end of fiscal year 1997. The Layton City Council is irked at the news, one calling it the Tower of Babel Part II. ' 'The sequel will be every bit as bad as the original," one councilman coun-cilman said. To counter Bountiful' s grandiose scheme, Layton officials are planning plann-ing to build the world's deepest open pit copper mine, deep enough to swallow the Bountiful needle. Still others think such schemes are foolhardy and suggest Bountiful Mayor Bob Linnell and Layton Mayor James Layton settle the ongoing dispute in the ring. BOUNTIFUL Stung by Layton's ascendancy to the mantle of most populous city in Davis County, Bountiful officials have dreamed up a 1 ,500 foot high space needle to nettle their rapidly expanding northern neighbor. "Let's see them top this one," said one city councilwoman wearing wear-ing an "Anywhere but Layton" T-shirt. T-shirt. Layton's burgeoning population surpassed Bountiful's in the 1990 census. And with Bountiful having little room to expand, the population popula-tion gap is expected to widen dramatically dra-matically over the next quarter century. cen-tury. The population disparity has irked many Bountiful officials who say they will never play second fiddle to Layton. Bigger, bolder and badder known by municipal officials as the three Bs were the criteria set forth by the City Council to weigh builders' proposals to make Bountiful Boun-tiful the brightest light in the Davis County municipal firmament. Bob Beacon, president of Tall Tales Inc. based in Truth or Consequences, Conse-quences, N.M., submitted the winning winn-ing proposal and was, coincidental-ly, coincidental-ly, die low bidder with an offer of $31 million. Beacon's idea calls for a needle 546 feet higher than the Sears Tower in Chicago and a whopping 895 feet higher inan the Seattle Space Needle. Aside from the structure's struc-ture's formidable height. Beacon says building the needle will be a snapliterally. You see the structure struc-ture will be built entirely of super reinforced Legos incorporating the latest technology used to make the tiles on the exterior of the space shuttle. Asked when construction would |