Governor Weld has the procedures in place to have a $500,000-a-year lease approved for Mr. Kraft.

By a 7-to-2 vote, the Council tonight approved a 63-year lease.

Arias balked, but ultimately approved a lease on one site after the United States threatened to occupy the land it wanted.

Torrington's city council has approved a 99-year lease of a city-owned, 90-acre tract to the Beecher House Society for a dollar a year.

In January 2005, the college approved a lease with Clear Channel Communications for space on their nearby tall tower.

A 6.5-acre property was eventually formally turned over to the nonprofit group after town boards approved a 99-year lease at the price of $1 per year.

Typical condominium documents give the board of managers right to match an offer to lease the space, but not to approve or disapprove a lease, he added.

On Dec. 16, the City Council approved a 50-year lease estimated to be worth more than $150 million.

The league wants a pure public subsidy and would never approve a lease with a rent higher than any other team.

Still, the city continued to show a hostile attitude toward approving a lease on any additional land that the Naval Reserve required.