Opinion ID: 215584
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Heading: Sediment Capture Capacity

Text: The Agreement obligates the City to increase sediment capture capacity by 1,500 cubic yards. Under Paragraph 4.3.1, this obligation is contingent upon -4- receipt of all required permits and third-party approvals. The receipt of permits is a condition precedent to the City’s obligation to increase capture capacity. See Ross v. Harding, 391 P.2d 526, 531 (Wash. 1964). At the time the Weinsteins and NYC filed this lawsuit, the City had not yet obtained the necessary permits; therefore, the City’s obligation to build the sediment capture pond had not yet arisen, and it could not be in breach. See id. (defining “condition precedent” as “a fact which must exist or occur before a duty of immediate performance of a promise could arise”). Moreover, the Weinsteins and NYC fail to make any showing that the City’s pursuit of permits for an in-channel sediment capture pond, as opposed to an off-channel pond, was not in good faith. We affirm the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the City on this claim.