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ADU / accessory dwelling in Trafalgar

Trafalgar is Johnson County's 1860-1940 cottage and farmhouse submarket. Trafalgar is a small town in southern Johnson County — its 1860-1940 housing stock is intact along Main Street.

Trafalgar cost range
$50K$260K
typical mid-complexity
Permit authority
Town of Trafalgar Building Department + Johnson County
6-10 weeks (Trafalgar Plan + Building permit)
Typical home size
1,200-2,400 sqft cottage/ranch
Borough · ZIP
Johnson County
46181
Trafalgar Main Street overlayIndiana 675 IAC 13/14 — adopted 2020 IRC + IECCJohnson County Plan Commission for unincorporated parcelsIndiana Plumbing Code (state-administered, separate from IRC)

What a adu / accessory dwelling project looks like here

Trafalgar is a small town in southern Johnson County — its 1860-1940 housing stock is intact along Main Street.

The Trafalgar Main Street overlay drives town-level design review on commercial frontages.

Most residential work routes through standard Building Department permitting without preservation review.

Indianapolis ADUs — detached, attached, and conversion paths — scoped against Marion County Code Enforcement + IRC 2018 + Indiana PLA setback + height + parking variances. In Trafalgar specifically, 1860-1940 cottage and farmhouse stock means adu / accessory dwelling scope is shaped by the neighborhood's dominant construction typology. Baily's Indianapolis scoping flow factors trafalgar main street overlay and indiana 675 iac 13/14 into the estimate before a contractor is involved.

Start your Trafalgar scope — Baily asks the right questions.

Pre-seeded for adu / accessory dwelling in Trafalgar. Mention your 1,200-2,400 sqft cottage/ranch, your timeline, and any known constraints — Baily factors the town of trafalgar building department + johnson county review queue into the scope.

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Who is Baily?

Baily is named after Francis Baily — an English stockbroker who retired at 51, became an astronomer, and in 1836 described something on the edge of a solar eclipse that nobody had properly articulated before: a string of bright beads of sunlight breaking through the valleys along the moon’s rim.

He wasn’t the first to see them. Edmond Halley saw them in 1715 and barely noticed. Baily’s contribution was clarity — describing exactly what was happening, in plain language, so vividly that the whole field of astronomy paid attention. The phenomenon is still called Baily’s beads.

That’s what we wanted our AI to do. Every inbound call and text has signal in it — a homeowner’s real question, a timeline, a budget, a hesitation that means “yes but.” Baily listens to every one, 24/7, and finds the beads of light.

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