NEW SALEM — After receiving new language for the conditions of the site plan for the New Salem Museum and Academy of Fine Art, the Planning Board approved the museum’s application last week.

Marc Goldstein, the institution’s lawyer, added language to address abutters’ and community members’ concerns, including terms for indoor events and an agreement to fill in a gap in the fencing. The revisions specified that event cleanup should end no later than 11 p.m. and that the applicants, husband and wife Vincent and Laura Barletta, should plant 10 green giant arborvitae or comparable plants along the existing fence and meet with abutter Sandra Fisher to clarify details about filling the gap in the fencing.

The Barlettas bought 37 South Main St. from Vincent’s mother roughly five years ago with hopes of displaying their art collection for the public’s enjoyment and hosting fee-based events, though some in town have been concerned about environmental impacts, noise and alcohol use, as well as effects on water and septic systems. They received site plan approval in 2019 and renovated the facility.

The following year, they applied for and received special permits the Planning Board decided were necessary. However, a trial court judge ruled the portions of the New Salem zoning bylaw relied on for the issuance of the special permits were invalid. That case is now in the Massachusetts Appeals Court in Boston.

“What we determined was we needed a refreshed site plan approval,” Goldstein explained in January. “This is meant to be a more fulsome site plan review.”

The Barlettas started their art collection in 2005 when they visited New York City for an anniversary and purchased one of Michael Klein’s original oil paintings depicting his wife, Nelida. The Kleins now live upstairs as around-the-clock caretakers, and some of Michael Klein’s work hangs on the museum’s walls.

Laura Barletta previously explained she and her husband collect contemporary realism artwork, which she said is a modern North American movement by artists who paint in the style of brilliant European painters.

The building was once a dormitory and home economics education facility for New Salem Academy, which Vincent Barletta’s grandmother attended as a student. After the school closed in 1969, Vincent Barletta’s father, who shared the same name as his son, bought the building for sentimental reasons and turned it into a single-family dwelling that was used infrequently.