Imperial Beach,Calif. -- The owner of a 121-year-old bar in Imperial Beach and the city settled a lawsuit he filed after being fined for parking cars on the lawn in front, it was reported Saturday.

Al Winkleman, owner of Ye Olde Plank Inn, put in a four-car driveway for his two Corvettes at a cost of about $20,000, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.

The settlement requires the city to pay half the cost and for each side to pay its own legal fees. The city spent $28,231, according to the Union- Tribune. Winkelman declined to say how much he spent.

"Hopefully, it's all over and we'll all be friends again," Winkelman, who has owned the city's oldest bar since 1969, told the Union-Tribune.

Winkelman, who lives above the bar, has parked his cars on his lawn since he bought the business, which was established in 1886 as a general store. There is no garage or carport on the property.

Over a four-month period about three years ago, Winkelman accumulated $9,400 in fines and $500 in administrative fees for violating the city's parking codes, the Union-Tribune reported.

Eventually, the city dismissed most of the fines, but Winkelman ended up suing in 2005, saying the city was trying to take the property by "inverse condemnation."

City officials are scheduled cinch the deal by making the curb cut to give Winkelman access to his newly finished driveway, which is permeable mix of concrete and grass that looks like a lawn.