Mayor pulls proposed Airbnb regulations to allow more study

Rather than face a potential fight with the City Council over how to keep Airbnb and its kin from eating Boston, Mayor Walsh has pulled his proposed regulations to allow for possible changes.

In a message to the council, Walsh acknowledged "important and complex questions" have been raised over the past couple of months and said he now needs more time to draft a better proposal."

Walsh had proposed a series of regulations in January that would have created different types of short-term rental units - investor owned vs. rooms or floors in an owner-occupied house, for example - and fees.

On Monday, Councilors Michelle Wu (at large) and Lydia Edwards (North End, Charlestown, East Boston) said the measure didn't go far enough to restrict investor-owned units and introduced amendments that would have banned investor-owned short-term rentals completely.