Greenwood, IN Zoning Overlays & Bonuses: Downtown Design Guide (2026)

These standards apply to all new structures and additions within the Old Town district; additions or alterations exceeding twenty percent of the existing structure require the entire building to be brought up to current standards, while smaller additions need only the new work to comply. Front elevations may combine stone, brick, stucco, engineered wood, fiber cement siding, engineered wood siding, glass curtain wall, or wood, but fiber cement panels are not permitted, and at least seventy-five percent of the front elevation must be clad in mortared masonry other than split-faced block.

The front elevation must also meet minimum transparency of sixty percent on the ground floor and forty percent on additional floors, and blank, windowless walls over 750 square feet facing a public street are prohibited unless articulated to break up the surface. Side and corner elevations must be clad in the same materials as the front, and garage or overhead doors on the front elevation must include some transparency. These building design rules layer on top of the Old Town (OT) zoning district's own dimensional table in Sec.

10-02-25, which sets a building height range of twenty-four to eighty feet and front setbacks as tight as zero feet, unless an outdoor cafe or porch pushes the setback to fifteen feet.