To provide revenues for the district, at any time prior to the formation of the district, or after the formation of the district and prior to the appointment of a commission, the legislative body conducting the proceeding for the formation of the district may enter into a contract or lease with any owner or tenant of property in the district under which the owner or tenant, for a specified rental or other consideration and for a specified period not exceeding 10 years, reserves a reasonable proportion or number of parking spaces in a parking place of the district for the use of the owner or tenant of such property, the employees of the owner or tenant performing services on the property, and the customers of, or other classes of persons designated by, the owner or tenant and entering the property as invitees or otherwise. After the appointment of a commission, the commission may make such contracts or leases.