Plan for slaughterhouse in Baltimore's Westport...

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Calling the plan “insulting and demoralizing,” residents and business owners in Westport have filed a protest over a plan to open a slaughterhouse in their community months after the area was celebrated as being in a new benefits district for the Port Covington development. City records show that Mohamed Elkazaz, of Philadelphia, filed a zoning appeal on Dec. 14 to build a slaughterhouse, packaging plant and retail store at 2701 Manokin St. in the Southwest Baltimore neighborhood. But when residents…