Hunt Club Road and Old Hunt Club Road
The road names that mark the historic equestrian corridor south and west of the village.
Eagle Township Equestrian Estates · Zionsville, IN
Acreage, barns, and a jurisdiction question: a Zionsville address is not always the Town of Zionsville
South and west of the village, along Hunt Club Road and out toward U.S. 421, Zionsville's 46077 address covers a belt of multi-acre estate and equestrian properties — barns, paddocks, long drives, and houses set well back from the road. Some of these parcels are inside town limits under the R-E district; many are unincorporated Eagle Township under Boone County zoning. That distinction decides which office issues the permit.
History & architecture
How Eagle Township Equestrian Estates was built
Eagle Township was farmland long before Zionsville's suburban growth, and much of it stayed in large parcels as the town expanded northeast.
Hunt Club Road and Old Hunt Club Road preserve the area's equestrian heritage in their names and in the barn-and-paddock pattern that still defines it.
Zionsville annexed substantial parts of Eagle Township over time, but annexation lines are irregular — neighboring estate properties can fall under different jurisdictions.
The Town created an Urban Equestrian/Estate Residential (R-E) district specifically to keep the three-acre-minimum, horse-friendly pattern intact where it is inside town limits.
- Lot pattern
- Three acres and up, many parcels five acres or larger
- Character
- Custom estate homes, horse barns, paddocks, long private drives
- Utilities
- Well and septic standard
- Jurisdiction
- Mixed — Town of Zionsville R-E and unincorporated Boone County
Landmarks & shared spaces
Places that anchor Eagle Township Equestrian Estates
Eagle Creek corridor
The creek and its ravines cross the estate belt and bring flood hazard mapping with them.
U.S. 421 / Michigan Road
The corridor edge where estate acreage meets overlay-regulated frontage.
Businesses & districts
Where Eagle Township Equestrian Estates gathers
Working horse properties
Boarding, training, and private equestrian facilities are common on the larger parcels.
Boone County Area Plan Commission
The reviewing body for unincorporated Eagle Township parcels — not Zionsville Town Hall.
Zoning & overlays
Common zoning codes in Eagle Township Equestrian Estates
These are the base districts and overlays we see most often on Eagle Township Equestrian Estates lots. Always confirm your parcel's district and overlays on the Metro zoning map before design decisions get expensive.
R-EUrban Equestrian/Estate Residential District
3-acre minimum lot, 200 ft width (150 ft on a cul-de-sac). Front 40 ft on a local, collector, cul-de-sac, or secondary arterial street and 60 ft on a primary arterial; side 25 ft; rear 50 ft primary and 25 ft accessory. 15% maximum lot coverage, accessory buildings capped at 22 ft.
R-SF-1Single-Family Residential District
Half-acre average lot per subdivision with a 15,000 sq ft minimum, widths from 80 ft to 150 ft by lot size. Front 35 ft, aggregate side yards 25–45 ft with no single side under 10–20 ft, rear 25 ft primary and 5 ft accessory. 35 ft height, 20% maximum lot coverage.
Overlays that apply here
MRO
U.S. 421 / Michigan Road Corridor Overlay District
Layered over base zoning along the Michigan Road corridor. Property inside the overlay carries added architecture, landscape, lighting, and access standards and goes through Plan Commission development plan review rather than a purely administrative approval.
Floodplain / Eagle Creek
FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area along Eagle Creek and its tributaries
Eagle Creek and the ravines feeding it run through much of Zionsville. Building in a mapped flood hazard area adds a floodplain review, fill and finished-floor requirements, and often an IDNR construction-in-a-floodway approval on top of the town permit.
Permitting path
- 1Confirm jurisdiction before anything else. A 46077 mailing address can be Town of Zionsville or unincorporated Boone County, and each has its own ordinance, permit, and board of zoning appeals.
- 2Inside town limits, R-E requires a 3-acre minimum lot, 200 ft width (150 ft on a cul-de-sac), 40 ft front on most street types and 60 ft on a primary arterial, 25 ft sides, 50 ft rear for the primary building and 25 ft for accessory buildings, and 15% maximum lot coverage. Accessory buildings top out at 22 ft.
- 3Outside town limits, the Boone County Area Plan Commission's zoning ordinance governs, including its own agricultural and residential district standards.
- 4Well and septic are the norm on estate acreage. Barns, guest quarters, and bedroom additions all raise septic capacity and county health department questions.
- 5Frontage on U.S. 421 can bring the Michigan Road Corridor Overlay into play, with added standards and Plan Commission development plan review.
- 6Every building, addition, or exterior alteration in Zionsville needs an Improvement Location Permit (§ 194.216) from the Planning & Building Department before a building permit issues.
- 7Zionsville's ordinance (§ 194.125) reaches further than most Indiana towns: development plan review by the Plan Commission can be triggered in residential districts and is standard inside the Michigan Road Corridor Overlay, so confirm early whether your project is administrative or a hearing item.
- 8Where the lot sits in a recorded subdivision plat, the platted building line controls over the district minimum. Read the plat before trusting the ordinance table.
- 9Relief from a setback, height, or coverage standard is a development standards variance at the Zionsville Board of Zoning Appeals.
- 10The town adopted an ordinance establishing a Historic Preservation Commission in 2022, and a village conservation district has been advocated for the core, but as of this writing there is no blanket certificate-of-appropriateness requirement for private residential exterior work. Confirm current status for any village project.
- 11Accessory dwelling unit standards were still moving through a Chapter 194 text amendment (Plan Commission docket 2025-45-OA) rather than being fully codified — treat an ADU as a question to settle with Planning before design, not a by-right use.
- 12Town approval and HOA approval are separate. Most Zionsville subdivisions have a recorded architectural review committee whose sign-off the town does not check and cannot waive.
Why it matters
Eagle Township Equestrian Estates's place in Zionsville
This belt is why Zionsville still reads as a village surrounded by countryside rather than continuous suburbia.
It holds the area's largest parcels and the design opportunities that come with them — outbuildings, guest quarters, barns, and true site-driven siting.
It is also the single most common place in the Zionsville area to get jurisdiction wrong, which is expensive to discover late.
Events & festivals
What happens in Eagle Township Equestrian Estates
Village calendar
Year-round
Estate-area residents use downtown Zionsville's festivals and markets as their community center.
Designing here
What this means for your Eagle Township Equestrian Estates project
- Settle the jurisdiction question in week one. The permit path, the setbacks, and the appeals body all change with it.
- R-E's 15% coverage cap sounds tight but on three acres it is rarely the binding constraint — setbacks and the 22 ft accessory height limit usually matter more for barns and outbuildings.
- A 50 ft rear setback for the primary building and 25 ft for accessory structures means estate siting has real room to work with, but flag drainage and creek buffers early.
- Guest quarters and second dwellings are not a settled by-right use. Zionsville's ADU standards were still moving through a text amendment, so confirm the current rule with Planning before designing one.
- Septic capacity, well location, and the drainage field envelope frequently determine where a barn or addition can physically sit on acreage.
- Eagle Creek flood hazard mapping crosses much of this area. Check it before siting anything low on the property.
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