Usually, the structure line area (likewise described as a building limitation location) might be utilized for outdoors parking and landscaping.

Bulk - a colloquial description of the quantum of developable floor area that might be established on a subject residential or commercial property in regards to the provisions of a statutory land usage plan. (i.e. the sum of the locations of all floors of a building on the subject residential or commercial property).

Coverage - a term normally specified in a land use scheme which describes the footprint of a building structure on a subject residential or commercial property, seen from directly above the subject residential or commercial property. In other words, the protection is a portion of the land area of the subject residential or commercial property, originated from computing such location within the boundaries of the outer delineation of the footprint of all building structures on the subject residential or commercial property seen from straight above the subject residential or commercial property (i.e. a 40% protection on a website of 1000m two will be 400m ² of location covered by buildings).

CPD - Continued Professional Development

Density - in preparing terms, this typically describes the occupational density which may be allowed on a subject residential or commercial property, generally revealed as a variety of home units per hectare of land. As an example, a density of 20 units per hectare on an erf determining 1000m two will translate into an efficient 2 dwelling units that may be set up on the land in concern.

DALRRD - Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development. This Department is the custodian of the Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013 (SPLUMA) and the regulating authority of the preparation profession.

EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment, a treatment pondered in the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA), which treatment is employed to acquire the authorisation of the pertinent environmental authority (either provincial or nationwide), to perform a defined activity on a subject residential or commercial property as might be managed in terms of the policies to NEMA.

FAR/FSR - Floor Area Ratio or Floor Space Ratio. A ratio normally revealed as a numeric figure (i.e. 0.5) being an aspect that may be increased with the land location of a subject residential or commercial property (normally in square metres), the product of which will define the gross floor location that may be set up on the subject residential or commercial property in terms of a land usage plan (also commonly described as "bulk or bulk aspect"). As an example, the FAR of 0,5, when used to a site of 1000m ², will equate into a developable gross flooring area of 500m ².

General Plan - this is a SG Diagram showing multiple erven and streets or partitioned erven or farm portions on a single diagram (or a single set of diagrams).

GLA - in specific land use plans this is specified as "gross leasable location" or "gross leasable floor location" or "gross lettable area". To put it simply, the location of the building efficient in being the topic of a lease arrangement in between the lessor and the lessee. This will typically omit non-leasable locations of the structure (common passages, stairwells, entrance foyers, energy rooms, and so on). Usually, when GLA becomes part of a land use scheme, it is generally just appropriate to the estimation of the required variety of parking bays to be provided on a subject residential or commercial property.

IDP - Integrated Development Plan as contemplated in, inter alia, the Local Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act 32 of 2000). This is the personnel "business strategy" of the town suggesting how it will spend its money (and where). A spatial development framework shows the spatial implications of the IDP.

Line of No Access - the zoning maps which form part of a land use scheme might consist of a recommendation to a so-called "line of no access", denoting a line (normally along the border limit of the subject residential or commercial property) along which no access may be supplied to the subject residential or commercial property from the external roadway system. Typically, such lines of no access use to provincial and nationwide roads and higher order roads within the community jurisdiction.

LUS - Land Use Scheme as specified in SPLUMA 2013 (comparable to a town plan).

NEMA - National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998)

Ordinance - might describe the Town and Townships Ordinance, 1986 (Ordinance 15 of 1986), additionally the Division of Land Ordinance, 1986 (Ordinance 20 of 1986)

PPA - Planning Professions Act, 2002 (Act 36 of 2002).

PI - Professional Indemnity Insurance

Rezoning - a colloquial description of the process of addressing the amendment of a land usage plan (or any of its provisions), to alter the land use rights and advancement constraints relevant to the subject residential or commercial property.

ROD - a Record of Decision as pondered in NEMA, being the composed decision handed down by an ecological authority, following an ecological impact evaluation treatment (it might be positive or negative).

RORA - Removal of Restrictions Act. There are 2 versions specifically:

• The National Removal of Restrictions Act, 1967 (appropriate to all provinces besides Gauteng).
• Gauteng Removal of Restrictions Act, 1996 (Act 3 of 1996) (just appropriate to Gauteng)

R.O.W - this is a bondage and describes a "access". To put it simply, it controls access over one residential or commercial property in favour of the next residential or commercial property (similar to a private road).

RPL - Recognition of Prior Learning. The principle of taking prior speculative knowing into account, regardless of that an individual may not hold an accredited tertiary qualification in the relevant field of endeavour.

SAACPP - South African Association of Consulting Professional Planners

SACPLAN - The South African Council for Planners set up in terms of the Planning Professions Act, 2002 (Act 36 of 2002).

SAPI - South African Planning Institution

SDF - Spatial Development Framework as considered in SPLUMA, 2013 and the Local Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act 32 of 2000). A visual illustration of the forward looking policy of a town (its future preferred state of development in its location of jurisdiction), being an extension of the local IDP.

SDP - a Site Development Plan. This is a plan generally defined in a land use plan which holistically highlights the designated development on a subject residential or commercial property, indicating the position of the proposed structure structures to be set up, access provisions, the provision of parking, landscaping, the imposition of structure lines, the position of servitudes and related features. An SDP typically precedes the submission of a structure plan.

SPLUMA - Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013

Township establishment - an incorporated process of converting a residential or commercial property registered as a farm part( s) into urban land (a municipality or suburban area) which may include subdivided erven/lots/stands and might consist of streets and public open spaces. Simultaneously, the residential or commercial properties situated within the ambit of the town will be afforded land usage rights (zoning) to control and handle making use of land as approved by the decision-making authority.

Splay - this typically refers to the corner part of the crossway between 2 roadways, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the actual road surface, aimed at working out the turning motion of motor automobiles moving from the one roadway to the other at such intersection.

Servitude - in planning terms, this generally refers to a part of the subject residential or commercial property over which an engineering service (water lines, power line, sewage centers, etc) are routed and where such services are secured by referral to a servitude diagram (illustrating the area so affected). Typically, bondage areas might not be encroached upon by constructing structures and the information of such yokes are generally explained in a notarial deed of bondage registered in the office of the Registrar of Deeds.

SG diagram - a diagram approved by the Surveyor General in terms of the Land Survey Act, denoting the limits of a residential or commercial property or a servitude or other acreage. This might consist of a General Plan of a municipality or a partitioned location where multiple erven or partitioned parts are reflected on one diagram.

Zoning Certificate - a certificate handed down by a town certifying that a subject residential or commercial property on its records is subject to a specific set of land usage and advancement controls (zoning arrangements). The certificate will typically confirm the land use zoning classification under which the subject residential or commercial property is held, with due reference to advancement restrictions such as height restrictions, protection limitations, floor location constraints, parking requirements and the like.