Usually, the structure line location (likewise referred to as a building limitation location) may be used for open air parking and landscaping.

Bulk - a colloquial description of the quantum of developable flooring location that may be established on a subject residential or commercial property in regards to the provisions of a statutory land use plan. (i.e. the amount of the areas of all floorings of a building on the subject residential or commercial property).

Coverage - a term normally specified in a land use plan which describes the footprint of a building structure on a subject residential or commercial property, seen from straight above the subject residential or commercial property. Simply put, the protection is a percentage of the land area of the subject residential or commercial property, stemmed from computing such location within the confines of the outer delineation of the footprint of all developing structures on the subject residential or commercial property seen from straight above the subject residential or commercial property (i.e. a 40% coverage on a site of 1000m ² will be 400m ² of area covered by structures).

CPD - Continued Professional Development

Density - in preparing terms, this normally refers to the occupational density which may be allowed on a subject residential or commercial property, normally expressed as a number of residence units per hectare of land. As an example, a density of 20 systems per hectare on an erf measuring 1000m two will translate into a reliable 2 home systems that may be set up on the land in question.

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 managing authority of the planning occupation.

EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment, a treatment considered in the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA), which procedure is employed to obtain the authorisation of the appropriate ecological authority (either provincial or nationwide), to carry out a defined activity on a subject residential or commercial property as might be regulated in terms of the guidelines to NEMA.

FAR/FSR - Floor Area Ratio or Floor Space Ratio. A ratio generally revealed as a numerical figure (i.e. 0.5) being an aspect that may be increased with the acreage of a subject residential or commercial property (generally in square metres), the item of which will specify the gross floor location that might be erected on the subject residential or commercial property in terms of a land usage plan (also frequently referred to as "bulk or bulk factor"). As an example, the FAR of 0,5, when applied to a site of 1000m TWO, will equate into a developable gross floor area of 500m ².

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

GLA - in specific land usage schemes this is specified as "gross leasable area" or "gross leasable flooring area" or "gross lettable area". In other words, the area of the building capable of being the subject of a lease arrangement between the lessor and the lessee. This will generally exclude non-leasable areas of the building (common passageways, stairwells, entrance foyers, utility rooms, etc). Usually, when GLA is part of a land usage plan, it is typically only relevant to the computation of the needed number of to be offered on a subject residential or commercial property.

IDP - Integrated Development Plan as considered in, inter alia, the Local Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act 32 of 2000). This is the operative "organization strategy" of the municipality showing how it will invest its money (and where). A spatial development structure highlights the spatial ramifications 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 gain access to", denoting a line (typically along the perimeter boundary of the subject residential or commercial property) along which no gain access to might be supplied to the subject residential or commercial property from the external road system. Typically, such lines of no access apply to provincial and nationwide roads and greater order roadways within the municipal jurisdiction.

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

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

Ordinance - might describe the Town Planning and Townships Ordinance, 1986 (Ordinance 15 of 1986), alternatively 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 taking care of the change of a land use plan (or any of its provisions), to alter the land use rights and advancement restrictions applicable to the subject residential or commercial property.

ROD - a Record of Decision as pondered in NEMA, being the composed choice handed down by an environmental authority, following an environmental effect assessment treatment (it may be favorable or negative).

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

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

R.O.W - this is a servitude and describes a "access". In other words, it regulates gain access to over one residential or commercial property in favour of the next residential or commercial property (similar to a personal roadway).

RPL - Recognition of Prior Learning. The principle of taking previous speculative learning into account, regardless of that a person might not hold a certified tertiary credentials in the appropriate field of endeavour.

SAACPP - South African Association of Consulting Professional Planners

SACPLAN - The South African Council for Planners instituted in regards to the Planning Professions Act, 2002 (Act 36 of 2002).

SAPI - South African Planning Institution

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

SDP - a Website Development Plan. This is a strategy normally specified in a land use scheme which holistically illustrates the desired development on a subject residential or commercial property, suggesting the position of the proposed structure structures to be erected, access provisions, the arrangement of parking, landscaping, the imposition of building lines, the position of yokes and related functions. An SDP normally precedes the submission of a building strategy.

SPLUMA - Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013

Township establishment - an integrated process of transforming a residential or commercial property registered as a farm part( s) into city land (an area or residential area) which might include subdivided erven/lots/stands and may consist of streets and public open spaces. Simultaneously, the residential or commercial properties positioned within the ambit of the town will be paid for land use rights (zoning) to regulate and handle the use of land as authorized by the decision-making authority.

Splay - this normally describes the corner element of the crossway in between two roads, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the real road surface, targeted at working out the turning motion of motor lorries moving from the one roadway to the other at such intersection.

Servitude - in planning terms, this usually refers to a part of the subject residential or commercial property over which an engineering service (water lines, electrical energy cables, sewage centers, etc) are routed and where such services are safeguarded by referral to a servitude diagram (depicting the location so affected). Typically, bondage locations might not be trespassed upon by constructing structures and the information of such thralls are normally described in a notarial deed of yoke 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 boundaries of a residential or commercial property or a thrall or other land area. This might consist of a General Plan of a township or a subdivided location where several erven or partitioned parts are reviewed one diagram.

Zoning Certificate - a certificate bied far by a municipality accrediting that a subject residential or commercial property on its records is subject to a specific set of land usage and development controls (zoning arrangements). The certificate will typically validate the land use zoning category under which the subject residential or commercial property is held, with due recommendation to development restrictions such as height restrictions, coverage limitations, floor location limitations, parking requirements and so on.
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