The group that proposed to build a $1 million slaughterhouse in Westport has withdrawn its request to appear before the city’s zoning board to obtain permission for the project.

The cancellation notice, sent on Monday to the city’s Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals, means that the project as originally conceived has at least been put on hold, if not shelved entirely.

“We want to cancel our petition” for an appeals hearing before the zoning board, wrote Mohamed Elkazaz and Mohammed Huda, two members of the group that proposed a slaughterhouse for a property at 2701 Manokin Street in Westport.

The land is a few blocks away from a 43-acre parcel that a group led by Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank bought for redevelopment in 2015.

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