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Council members showed little appetite, however, for tapping into the city s pool of impact fees. Mayor Adrian Fine called the museum project laudable but suggested that allocating the impact fees to the museum would represent an end run around the financial process. Impact fees, he said, are intended for a whole range of priorities relating to parks, libraries and community centers. If I knew we could ve done it on council, I would ve done it years ago, Fine said. I would have said, I love bike lanes and dog parks and let s use the impact fees to fund those. I find this entirely inappropriate.