Jeffrey Dahmer, right, shown during a preliminary trial in Milwaukee in 1991 with his lawyer, Gerald Boyle. Dahmer died in November, 1994 after he was attacked along with another inmate while working in a recreation area at the Columbia Correctional Institute in Portage, Wis.

(Alan Y. Scott, Associated Press)

BATH TOWNSHIP - A national animal-rights organization has dropped its proposal to turn serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer’s childhood home in Summit County into a vegan restaurant.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals suggested last week that the Bath Township home be remodeled into a restaurant called "Eat for Life: Home Cooking."

“Rather than remaining as a stark reminder of its dark past, the building can instead become the site of a celebration of culinary compassion,” the organization said.

Media officer Moira Colley said in an e-mail today that PETA regrets it won’t be able to move forward with the project “even though it was met with some enthusiasm as well as some derisive comments.”

PETA did not believe the home's out-of-way location was a deal breaker, she wrote, and the agent from Stouffer Realty Inc. who has listed the home was enthusiastic about the project.

“However, getting zoning for a restaurant on this site is apparently impossible, in part because of issues with the plumbing and waste systems,” she wrote. The home has well water and a septic system.

Suggestions were made to convert the home into a vegan bed and breakfast but that would not likely attract many people, she wrote.

The three-bedroom, three-bath home, on West Bath Road in Bath Township, was recently listed for sale at $295,000.

The house is where Dahmer killed the first of his 17 victims. In 1978, he killed and dismembered a 19-year-old hitchhiker Steven Hicks in the house. He scattered the remains on the 1.5-acre property.