Town of Zionsville Planning & Building Department

Town of Zionsville, Indiana

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1100 W Oak Street, Zionsville, IN 46077

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WHERE. The Planning & Building Department is at Zionsville Town Hall, 1100 W Oak Street, Zionsville, IN 46077, telephone 317-873-8247, open Monday to Friday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Check the address first: the Boone County Area Plan office serves only the Town of Advance and unincorporated Boone County, so a Zionsville address is permitted here and not at the County. WHAT IS FILED. The Town's Re-Roof Permit Application asks for the parcel number, the applicant and the owner, the current use of the lot, whether the new roof goes over existing roofing and how many layers are there, and the estimated construction cost; the Town also publishes an Owner Authorization Form. Permit applications are emailed to the permit staff named on the Town's forms page or dropped at the front desk, and the Town's FAQ states that "Re-Roof and Sewer Repair permits are issued on a walk in basis." MONEY. $75 under the fee schedule's "Other residential" line, which "includes roofing, patio and electrical permits". Residential re-inspections are $75. INSPECTION. One final inspection, requested by email to [email protected] with the permit number and address in the subject line; a request must arrive by 3pm the business day before, and inspectors take calls on 317-832-6135 between 8 and 9 a.m. on the day. TWO THINGS THAT CATCH PEOPLE OUT. A Town permit "does not supersede approval from your Homeowners Association", so clear the HOA separately. And construction noise hours are 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., with no Sunday work in the urban district.

THE TOWN NAMES THE STATE CODE ITSELF, IN THREE PLACES. Its Roofing FAQ asks: "Does Zionsville enforce the state building codes (2020 Indiana Residential Code consisting of the 2018 International Residential Code) in their entirety when replacing a roof? YES". Its residential permit application prints "APPLICABLE CODE(S) - *REQUIRED: 2020 Indiana Residential Code - Includes ALL Crafts". And its Permit Information page links the 2020 Indiana Residential Code "complete with amendments". The Indiana rule behind that is 675 IAC 14-4.4, which incorporates the 2018 International Residential Code, and the State Building Commissioner's memo on roofing states: "The 2020 Indiana Residential Code is in full force and effect statewide." A town cannot vary it. IC 22-13-2-3(c) provides that "A city, town, or county may not adopt an ordinance that conflicts with or includes more stringent or detailed requirements than the commission's rules." WHAT WAS NOT READ. The Town's Code of Ordinances, including any chapter adopting the state rules by reference, is published only on a vendor platform that returned an empty page to automated requests, so its text is not quoted or relied on here. The Town's own current documents name the 2020 Indiana Residential Code and nothing older, and that is the edition this record reports. One dated item in the Town's paperwork is worth knowing so it does not confuse: its building permit procedures sheet still asks residential applicants for the "2012 Indiana Energy Code Certification". That is an energy-code item and has no bearing on a reroof.

Required — REQUIRED AT EAVES AND RAKES, BY THE STATE CODE THE TOWN SAYS IT ENFORCES IN FULL. The Indiana State Building Commissioner's memo on ice and water shield and drip edge in Class 2 construction reproduces the provision as Indiana adopted it, opening: "R905.2.8.5 Drip edge. A drip edge shall be provided at eaves and rake edges of shingle roofs." The State rule, 675 IAC 14-4.4, amends R905.2.8 only by deleting the word "approved" and does not touch R905.2.8.5. The Town's Roofing FAQ answers YES when asked whether it enforces the 2020 Indiana Residential Code in its entirety when replacing a roof. The laps, extension and fastener spacing are set out in the State memo and the adopted code and are not restated here. Zionsville has no drip-edge rule of its own and no power under IC 22-13-2-3(c) to add or remove one. Note that "Class 2" in Indiana building law is a structure class meaning a one or two family dwelling, not a fire or hail rating. About drip edge

Not required — NOT REQUIRED BY THE COUNTY TABLE HERE, BUT THE TOWN SAYS IN WRITING THAT IT ENFORCES THE MANUFACTURER'S INSTRUCTIONS, MEMBRANE INCLUDED. Indiana replaces the model climatic table with its own county-by-county Table R301.2(1), and the Boone County row reads Ice Shield Underlayment Required: No. The State Building Commissioner's memo explains what that No means: "there are specific counties in which it is always required (per Table R301.2(1)), and specific counties in which it is required only when the roofing manufacturer's written installation instructions require it (per Sections R903.1, R904.1 and R905.1)." Boone is in the second group. Zionsville's Roofing FAQ then says what the Town enforces. Asked whether it requires full adherence where a manufacturer instructs the membrane, "including installation of ice and water shield wherever the manufacturer instructs", the Town answers YES. Asked whether failing to install the roof per the manufacturer's instructions would be a code violation, it answers YES. And where the manufacturer does not call for it: "Zionsville makes no assertion as to ice and water shield (beyond what is required by the current Indiana Residential Code)." So read the printed installation instructions for the shingle actually being installed. If they call for the membrane, the Town treats leaving it out as a code violation. About ice & water barrier

Not required — NO MID-ROOF STAGE, AND THE TOWN SAYS SO IN ITS OWN ITEMISED LIST. The Required Residential Inspections sheet lists footing, foundation drainage tile, foundation and underslab, temporary electric, sewer, exterior veneer, rough, energy and final, and then gives a line for each smaller job type. The reroof line reads, in full: "Re-roofs: require a final inspection." There is no deck, dry-in or underlayment hold point before the covering goes on. The same sheet warns that "All re-inspections will incur a $75.00 re-inspection fee", so have the roof finished and the site ready before asking for the final. If the deck should be seen before it is covered, arrange that with a Building Inspector in advance.

Not required — NOT REQUIRED. The State rule, 675 IAC 14-4.4, contains no occurrence of UL 2218, Class 4, Class IV or FM 4473, the designations that answer this question, and its only roof-assemblies amendments are the word and sentence deletions described in this record's layer field. IC 22-13-2-3(c) bars a town from adopting an ordinance more stringent or more detailed than the state rules. The Town's own Roofing FAQ describes what it enforces on a roof replacement as the 2020 Indiana Residential Code in its entirety and the manufacturer's installation instructions, and names no impact rating. The Town's codified ordinances were not read for this record. Impact-rated shingles are an insurance and warranty choice in Zionsville, not a code requirement.

THE TOWN'S OWN ANSWER IS YES FOR A SHINGLE REPLACEMENT, AND IT PUBLISHES NO SIZE OR DOLLAR FLOOR. The Town's signed Roofing FAQ, which it calls "the Town of Zionsville's official responses", asks in question 3: "Is a permit or inspection required when replacing roof shingles? YES". The Town publishes a dedicated form for the job, the Improvement Location Permit "Application for Re-Roof Permit", and its fee schedule under Town Council Ordinance 2024-22 prices it under "Other residential" at "$75 includes roofing, patio and electrical permits". None of those documents sets a square-footage, percentage or dollar figure below which roof work escapes a permit. WHAT THIS RECORD DOES NOT ESTABLISH. The permit requirement itself sits in the Town's Planning and Zoning Ordinance, which the Town's own permit procedures sheet cites as section 194.216, Improvement Location Permits, and the Town publishes its codified ordinances only on a vendor platform that returned an empty page to automated requests. So whether that section carves out a minor roof repair, as distinct from replacing shingles, was not read for this record. Ask the Planning & Building Department on 317-873-8247 before treating a small patch as permit-free.

THE FIGURES ARE THE STATE'S COUNTY TABLE, NOT A ZIONSVILLE ENACTMENT. Indiana deletes the model Table R301.2(1) and substitutes its own, one row per county, at 675 IAC 14-4.4-5. Zionsville is in Boone County, row 06, which reads: wind speed 115 mph, seismic design category B, ground snow load 20 psf, foundation depth 30 inches, winter design temperature 2 degrees Fahrenheit, decay slight to moderate, termite moderate to heavy, weathering severe, ice shield underlayment required No, air freezing index 1500 or less, mean annual temperature 52.3 degrees. NOTE THE SEISMIC CATEGORY. Boone is B, while neighbouring Hamilton County is A, so a detail carried over from a Carmel or Fishers job may rest on a different seismic assumption. The Town publishes no design criteria of its own, and IC 22-13-2-3(c) bars it from varying these.

THE TOWN ASKS FOR THE LAYER COUNT ON ITS PERMIT FORM, AND NEITHER THE TOWN NOR THE STATE WRITES A LAYER RULE OF ITS OWN. The Re-Roof Permit Application asks "Roofing over existing?" with Yes and No boxes and then, if yes, the "existing number of roofing layers", so count the layers before filing. The State rule, 675 IAC 14-4.4, amends four sections of the roof assemblies chapter and every one is the deletion of a word or a sentence: the last sentence of R902.4 on rooftop photovoltaic panel systems, the word "approved" in R905.2.6 and again in R905.2.8, and one word in R905.2.8.4. It makes no amendment to the reroofing section, R908, so the 2018 International Residential Code reroofing and recover provisions apply here unmodified by Indiana. The Town's Roofing FAQ says it enforces that code in full when a roof is replaced, and IC 22-13-2-3(c) bars a town from any more stringent or more detailed local rule. The operative ICC text of the recover provisions sits behind the ICC paywall and was not opened for this record, so no layer count is restated here. Read it from the adopted 2018 edition, and settle any overlay with the Planning & Building Department before quoting one.

NO LOCAL SHEATHING RULE, AND THE STATE'S ONLY CHANGE TO ROOF SHEATHING IS A PAPERWORK POINT. Indiana's rule, 675 IAC 14-4.4, makes one amendment to the roof sheathing provisions: Sec. 82 deletes the words "or certificate of inspection issued by an approved agency" from R803.2.1, identification and grade, so roof sheathing panels are identified by their grade mark alone. It makes no other amendment to the roof sheathing or roof deck provisions, and its roof-assemblies amendments are the word and sentence deletions described in this record's layer field. The Town writes no sheathing rule in any roofing document it publishes, and IC 22-13-2-3(c) bars a town from adding one. The base 2018 International Residential Code deck and sheathing text was not opened for this record and is not restated here. Zionsville's published inspection list has no deck stage on a reroof, so if a tear-off will expose damaged decking, agree with a Building Inspector how it is to be seen before it is covered.

7% in Zionsville, the Indiana state rate, with no county or municipal sales tax on top. The Department of Revenue's county tax information page lists the taxes Indiana counties do levy, an innkeeper's tax, a food and beverage tax and a local income tax, and states: "The sales tax for the entire State of Indiana is 7%." None of those county taxes reaches roofing materials, so 7% is the full rate on materials bought in Zionsville.