Edgartown selectmen approved an entertainment renewal license for the Atlantic restaurant on Monday afternoon despite a history of noise complaints from a neighboring hotel.

In a letter to the board, the Harborside Inn general manager Joseph Badot said he is pleased with conditions set by the selectmen but asked for stronger enforcement in the coming season.

The conditions include all windows must be closed during hours when entertainment is in progress, there must be minimum amplification of entertainment indoors, and there can be no outside entertainment. The weekday and Sunday licenses are from noon until 12:30 a.m.

“On numerous occasions since the original license was granted, we have had to call the Edgartown Police to complain about the noise from bands and deejays. During the most recent 2010 season, we called 911 on at least seven occasions and the Edgartown Police at least eight times,” the letter states. “We have refunded hundreds of dollars and lost many repeat guests because of this disturbance.”

Edgartown police sergeant Craig Edwards said there were four reported incidents when the police were called to the restaurant for noise complaints and each time the management had been cooperative in closing the windows and turning down the amplifier system.

“We found a lot of times the window behind the band gets opened by the people playing there so it’s unbeknownst to the management,” Sgt. Edwards said at Monday’s meeting. “Our officers have gone to the back of the Atlantic to monitor the noise as well. Sometimes, they find it’s too loud, but sometimes they have found it’s not.”

Mr. Badot attended the meeting to reiterate his concern. “I would think it is very easy to tell a band not to open a window,” he replied.

Representing the Atlantic, attorney Sean Murphy said he pulled the 911 call log and two of the four call reports were “unsubstantiated and found the noise was not at excessive levels” and the other was from “general noise in the neighborhood.”

“[The Atlantic] will make their best effort to keep the windows closed,” Mr. Murphy said. “They’ll continue to comply with the entertainment license. There are two competing interests here, a restaurant and entertainment venue and an abutting hotel. Sometime it’s the Wharf, sometimes it’s street noise, or people yelling. They’ll continue to work with the police department and neighbors as best they can.”

Mr. Badot said he had no issue with the conditions and was confident the restaurant and inn could work together. Sgt. Edwards asked that all future calls regarding noise complaints go through the nonemergency number, but selectman Art Smadbeck insisted those calls be recorded as official complaints.

“Let’s wait until the season starts and hope everything runs smoothly,” board chairman Margaret Serpa said. Mr. Smadbeck suggested increasing direct communication between both parties would help as well.

In other business, the selectmen approved an additional handful of seasonal entertainment and common victual licenses. Restaurant David Ryan’s applied for a new liquor license under the name Vineyard Phoenix, a new corporation formed by the owners, as the old corporation filed for bankruptcy and the old license is a part of that filing.