MUZ — Mixed Use Zone
A flexible zone that mixes housing with compatible shops, offices and other business uses, usually along main roads and in urban-renewal areas.
Built form
No default height limit — heights come from the schedule or from overlays (commonly a DDO); ResCode applies to residential development unless varied.
Typically allowed
- Dwellings and apartment developments
- Shops, offices, food and drink premises (many without a permit or with a permit)
- Small-scale industry with low amenity impact (with a permit)
What is allowed on a particular site depends on the council’s schedule to this zone and any overlays. Check the scheme; we make no determination.
Typically not allowed
- Heavy industry and uses with significant off-site amenity impacts
What to look at
Expect commercial neighbours and activity (deliveries, evening trade). Good for live/work flexibility; investigate what the schedule and any Design and Development Overlay allow next door.
Source: Victoria Planning Provisions, Clause 32.04 (Mixed Use Zone); DTP planning.vic.gov.au
Councils that map MUZ
- Alpine8 mapped areas
- Ararat3 mapped areas
- Ballarat66 mapped areas
- Banyule9 mapped areas
- Bass Coast14 mapped areas
- Baw Baw2 mapped areas
- Bayside10 mapped areas
- Benalla1 mapped area
- Boroondara2 mapped areas
- Brimbank11 mapped areas
- Cardinia13 mapped areas
- Casey2 mapped areas
- Corangamite7 mapped areas
- Darebin19 mapped areas
- East Gippsland17 mapped areas
- Frankston5 mapped areas
- Gannawarra2 mapped areas
- Greater Dandenong13 mapped areas
- Greater Geelong18 mapped areas
- Hobsons Bay4 mapped areas
- Horsham1 mapped area
- Hume6 mapped areas
- Indigo10 mapped areas
- Kingston21 mapped areas
- Queenscliffe7 mapped areas
This list covers the councils in our corpus only. A council we hold no data for may also map MUZ — we simply cannot say.
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This page reports what is mapped in published VIC planning data, as we last synced it on 23 May 2026. It is general information, not planning advice, and it makes no assessment of any proposal. Whether an approval is needed, and what a council decides, are matters for the responsible authority — check the council’s own planning scheme and contact them directly.