A zoning change that would enable a freight service and logistics business to move into a building on Seventh Avenue South was advanced by the Fort Dodge Plan and Zoning Commission Tuesday.

The company, which hasn’t been named publicly, plans to set up shop in a building at 3018 Seventh Ave. S. That site is owned by JPC Properties LLC and is occupied by Castor Construction.

Castor Construction is moving, and the incoming business wants to build a 40-foot-by-80-foot addition to the structure there, according to Maggie Carlin, the associate city planner. To make that possible, the eastern 50 feet of the property must be rezoned from single family residential to arterial commercial.

The commission voted to recommend that change. The matter now goes to the City Council for final action.

Also on Tuesday, the commission recommended that the City Council give up some public property around a former church near Hawkeye Avenue and Second Street Northwest.

Wayne Rentz, who owns the former church, an old convenience store to the north of it and much of the nearby wooded property along the Des Moines River, made the request. He would like the city to give up a section of pavement between the church and the convenience store that is actually part of Second Avenue Northwest. He also wants the city to give up land behind the church that is actually an alley.

Commission members Kim Motl, Jamie Lara and Lisa Wilson were absent from the otherwise unanimous votes.