Usually, the structure line location (also referred to as a building restriction area) may be utilized for open air parking and landscaping.

Bulk - a colloquial description of the quantum of developable floor location that might be established on a subject residential or commercial property in regards to the provisions of a statutory land usage scheme. (i.e. the sum of the areas of all floorings of a structure on the subject residential or commercial property).

Coverage - a term usually specified in a land use plan which explains the footprint of a building structure on a subject residential or commercial property, seen from directly above the subject residential or commercial property. To put it simply, the coverage is a percentage of the land area of the subject residential or commercial property, obtained from calculating such area within the boundaries of the external delineation of the footprint of all constructing 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 site of 1000m two will be 400m two of area covered by buildings).

CPD - Continued Professional Development

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

EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment, a treatment contemplated in the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA), which procedure is used to acquire the authorisation of the relevant environmental authority (either provincial or national), to conduct a specified activity on a subject residential or commercial property as might be managed in regards to the regulations to NEMA.

FAR/FSR - Floor Area Ratio or Floor Space Ratio. A ratio usually expressed as a numerical figure (i.e. 0.5) being an element that may be increased with the acreage 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 regards to a land usage scheme (likewise frequently referred to as "bulk or bulk factor"). As an example, the FAR of 0,5, when used to a website of 1000m TWO, will translate into a developable gross flooring area of 500m ².

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

GLA - in particular land usage schemes this is defined as "gross leasable location" or "gross leasable flooring location" or "gross lettable location". Simply put, the area of the structure efficient in being the topic of a lease contract between the lessor and the lessee. This will typically omit non-leasable locations of the structure (communal passages, stairwells, entrance foyers, utility spaces, etc). Usually, when GLA becomes part of a land use scheme, it is typically just relevant to the calculation of the required number of parking bays to be supplied on a subject residential or commercial property.

IDP - Integrated Development Plan as considered in, inter alia, the City government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act 32 of 2000). This is the operative "service strategy" of the municipality suggesting how it will spend its cash (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 plan may include a referral to a so-called "line of no gain access to", signifying a line (typically along the border border 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 gain access to use to provincial and national roadways and greater order roadways within the municipal jurisdiction.

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

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

Ordinance - may describe the Town 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 addressing the change of a land use scheme (or any of its provisions), to alter the land usage rights and development restrictions relevant to the subject residential or commercial property.

ROD - a Record of Decision as contemplated in NEMA, being the composed decision bied far by an ecological authority, following an environmental effect assessment procedure (it might be favorable or negative).

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

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

R.O.W - this is a bondage and refers to a "access". In other words, it manages gain access to over one residential or commercial property in favour of the next residential or commercial property (similar to a private street).

RPL - Recognition of Prior Learning. The principle of taking previous speculative knowing into account, notwithstanding that a person might not hold a certified tertiary certification in the pertinent field of endeavour.

SAACPP - South African Association of Consulting Professional Planners

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

SAPI - South African Planning Institution

SDF - Spatial Development Framework as pondered 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 wanted state of advancement in its area of jurisdiction), being an extension of the municipal IDP.

SDP - a Website Development Plan. This is a plan normally specified in a land use scheme which holistically illustrates the designated advancement on a subject residential or commercial property, indicating the position of the proposed structure structures to be put up, access arrangements, the arrangement of parking, landscaping, the imposition of structure lines, the position of thralls and related features. An SDP typically precedes the submission of a structure strategy.

SPLUMA - Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013

Township facility - an incorporated process of converting a residential or commercial property signed up as a farm portion( s) into metropolitan land (a municipality or suburb) which might include partitioned erven/lots/stands and may consist of streets and public open areas. Simultaneously, the residential or commercial properties positioned within the ambit of the area will be afforded land usage rights (zoning) to regulate and handle using land as approved by the decision-making authority.

Splay - this typically describes the corner part of the crossway between 2 roadways, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the real roadway surface area, aimed at negotiating the turning movement of automobile moving from the one roadway to the other at such crossway.

Servitude - in preparing terms, this generally describes a part of the subject residential or commercial property over which an engineering service (water lines, power line, sewage facilities, and so on) are routed and where such services are safeguarded by referral to a servitude diagram (portraying the location so afflicted). Typically, yoke locations might not be encroached upon by building structures and the details of such yokes are usually described in a notarial deed of servitude registered in the workplace of the Registrar of Deeds.

SG diagram - a diagram authorized by the Surveyor General in regards to the Land Survey Act, denoting the limits of a residential or commercial property or a thrall or other acreage. This might include a General Plan of a township or a partitioned location where several erven or subdivided parts are assessed one diagram.

Zoning Certificate - a certificate bied far by a town certifying that a subject residential or commercial property on its records is subject to a particular set of land usage and advancement controls (zoning arrangements). The certificate will generally verify the land use zoning category under which the subject residential or commercial property is held, with due reference to development limitations such as height limitations, coverage constraints, floor area constraints, parking requirements and the like.