The Jackson Town Council will discuss controversial regulations governing the conversion of rental apartments to condominiums during a meeting today.

The council in January set a six-month moratorium on conversions pending review of the regulations, specifically whether such projects should be subject to the town’s 15 percent affordable-housing mitigation rate.

At the January meeting, the council agreed it had neither the information nor consensus among its members to formulate a new rule governing conversion and current disagreements between planning staff and the council over how to interpret existing regulations made it impossible to proceed.

The council, Jackson Planning Commission and interest groups such as Save Historic Jackson Hole and the Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance have debated the regulations for several months. At issue is whether some units should become affordable housing and whether the town is following its own regulations.

Though the council has expressed its desire to have condo conversions continue without requiring additional affordable housing, staff has said its interpretation of the current regulation is that affordable housing is required.

 Without a change to the regulation, staff interpretation and council direction will continue to clash.

In the week preceding the moratorium, the planning department received proposals to condominiumize 92 apartment units in Jackson, including the 84-unit Timbers complex on Gregory Lane.

The meeting will begin at 3 p.m. in the council chambers, at 150 E. Pearl Ave.