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

Bulk - a colloquial description of the quantum of developable floor location that may be developed on a subject residential or commercial property in regards to the arrangements of a statutory land usage plan. (i.e. the amount of the locations of all floorings of a building on the subject residential or commercial property).

Coverage - a term generally defined in a land usage scheme 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. In other words, the protection is a percentage of the land location of the subject residential or commercial property, obtained from computing such location within the boundaries of the external delineation of the footprint of all developing structures on the subject residential or commercial property seen from directly above the subject residential or commercial property (i.e. a 40% coverage on a site of 1000m ² will be 400m ² of location covered by structures).

CPD - Continued Professional Development

Density - in preparing terms, this normally describes the occupational density which might be permitted on a subject residential or commercial property, generally 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 ² will translate into a reliable 2 dwelling systems 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 occupation.

EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment, a procedure considered in the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA), which procedure is utilized to procure the authorisation of the pertinent environmental authority (either provincial or national), to carry out a specified activity on a subject residential or commercial property as might be managed in regards to the guidelines to NEMA.

FAR/FSR - Floor Area Ratio or Floor Space Ratio. A ratio typically revealed as a numerical figure (i.e. 0.5) being an aspect that might be multiplied with the acreage of a subject residential or commercial property (typically in square metres), the item of which will specify the gross flooring area that might be set up on the subject residential or commercial property in terms of a land usage plan (also typically described 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 flooring location of 500m TWO.

General Plan - this is a SG Diagram reflecting 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 defined as "gross leasable location" or "gross leasable flooring location" or "gross lettable area". In other words, the location of the building efficient in being the subject of a lease agreement between the lessor and the lessee. This will typically exclude non-leasable areas of the building (common passages, stairwells, entryway foyers, energy rooms, etc). Usually, when GLA is part of a land use plan, it is typically just relevant to the computation of the required number of parking bays to be offered 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 plan" of the municipality indicating how it will invest its cash (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 usage plan might include a recommendation to a so-called "line of no gain access to", signifying a line (usually along the border border of the subject residential or commercial property) along which no gain access to may be supplied to the subject residential or commercial property from the external road system. Typically, such lines of no gain access to use to provincial and national roads and higher order roadways within the community 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 - might refer to the Town Planning 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 participating in to the modification of a land use plan (or any of its arrangements), to alter the land use rights and advancement limitations relevant to the subject residential or commercial property.

ROD - a Record of Decision as considered in NEMA, being the written choice bied far by an environmental authority, following an ecological impact assessment procedure (it might be positive or negative).

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

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

R.O.W - this is a bondage and describes a "access". Simply put, it regulates access over one residential or commercial property in favour of the next residential or commercial property (comparable to a private highway).

RPL - Recognition of Prior Learning. The concept of taking previous speculative knowing into account, notwithstanding that an individual may not hold a certified tertiary certification in the appropriate 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 pondered 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 municipality (its future wanted state of development in its area of jurisdiction), being an extension of the municipal IDP.

SDP - a Website Development Plan. This is a strategy typically defined in a land usage scheme which holistically shows the intended development on a subject residential or commercial property, showing the position of the proposed structure structures to be erected, 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 strategy.

SPLUMA - Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013

Township facility - an incorporated procedure of converting a residential or commercial property signed up as a farm portion( s) into urban land (a town or suburb) which might include subdivided erven/lots/stands and may include streets and public open areas. Simultaneously, the residential or commercial properties positioned within the ambit of the township will be paid for land usage rights (zoning) to manage and manage the use of land as authorized by the decision-making authority.

Splay - this generally refers to the corner part of the crossway between 2 roads, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the real roadway surface, targeted at negotiating the turning motion of motor lorries moving from the one road to the other at such crossway.

Servitude - in preparing terms, this usually describes 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 protected by referral to a servitude diagram (illustrating the location so affected). Typically, thrall locations might not be encroached upon by building structures and the details of such bondages are normally described in a notarial deed of yoke signed up in the office of the Registrar of Deeds.

SG diagram - a diagram approved by the Surveyor General in terms of the Land Survey Act, signifying the boundaries of a residential or commercial property or a yoke or other acreage. This may consist of a General Plan of a municipality or a partitioned location where multiple erven or subdivided portions are assessed one diagram.

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