Developer Donald Trump does not have to pay annual rent of $207,000 on a planned Long Island oceanfront restaurant until he is issued a permit to build the project, a state judge has ruled.

In a critical rebuke of the State Office of Parks, Supreme Court Justice Ira B. Warshawsky in Nassau County (See Profile) ruled that Mr. Trump could not have complied with the construction schedule without being issued a permit by the state to build a restaurant at Jones Beach.