Usually, the building line area (also described as a structure limitation area) might be utilized for open air parking and landscaping.
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Bulk - a colloquial description of the quantum of developable flooring location that might be established on a subject residential or commercial property in terms of the arrangements of a statutory land use plan. (i.e. the sum 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 scheme which explains 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 portion of the acreage of the subject residential or commercial property, obtained from computing such area within the boundaries of the external 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% coverage on a website of 1000m two will be 400m ² of location covered by structures).

CPD - Continued Professional Development

Density - in preparing terms, this usually describes the occupational density which might be allowed on a subject residential or commercial property, generally expressed as a variety of residence systems per hectare of land. As an example, a density of 20 units per hectare on an erf determining 1000m two will translate into a reliable 2 residence units that may be put 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 regulating authority of the planning profession.

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

FAR/FSR - Floor Area Ratio or Floor Space Ratio. A ratio generally expressed as a numeric figure (i.e. 0.5) being a factor that may be multiplied with the land area of a subject residential or commercial property (generally 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 use plan (likewise 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 TWO.

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

GLA - in specific land usage schemes this is defined as "gross leasable area" or "gross leasable floor area" or "gross lettable area". To put it simply, the location of the structure capable of being the topic of a lease arrangement between the lessor and the lessee. This will normally exclude non-leasable locations of the building (communal passages, stairwells, entrance foyers, utility spaces, and so on). Usually, when GLA belongs to a land usage plan, it is usually only pertinent to the estimation of the required variety of parking bays to be supplied 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 "company plan" 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 may consist of a referral to a so-called "line of no access", denoting a line (generally along the border border of the subject residential or commercial property) along which no gain access to may be provided to the subject residential or commercial property from the external roadway system. Typically, such lines of no gain access to apply to provincial and national roadways and greater order roads within the community jurisdiction.

LUS - Land Use Scheme as defined in SPLUMA 2013 (similar to a town 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 taking care of the amendment of a land use scheme (or any of its provisions), to alter the land use rights and development limitations applicable to the subject residential or commercial property.

ROD - a Record of Decision as contemplated in NEMA, being the composed choice handed down by an environmental authority, following an environmental effect assessment procedure (it might be positive or negative).

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

• 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 appropriate to Gauteng)

R.O.W - this is a bondage and describes a "right-of-way". In other words, it manages access over one residential or commercial property in favour of the next residential or commercial property (comparable to a personal highway).

RPL - Recognition of Prior Learning. The principle of taking prior speculative learning into account, regardless of that an individual might not hold an accredited tertiary certification 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 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 preferred state of advancement in its area of jurisdiction), being an extension of the community IDP.

SDP - a Site Development Plan. This is a strategy generally specified in a land usage plan which holistically shows the designated advancement on a subject residential or commercial property, showing the position of the proposed building structures to be set up, gain access to provisions, the arrangement of parking, landscaping, the imposition of building lines, the position of thralls and associated features. An SDP normally precedes the submission of a structure strategy.

SPLUMA - Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013

Township facility - an incorporated process of transforming a residential or commercial property signed up as a farm part( s) into city land (a municipality or residential area) which may consist of subdivided erven/lots/stands and might consist of streets and public open areas. Simultaneously, the residential or commercial properties located within the ambit of the municipality will be afforded land usage rights (zoning) to control and handle making use of land as approved by the decision-making authority.

Splay - this normally refers to the corner element of the intersection in between two roads, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the real road surface, focused on working out the turning movement of motor cars moving from the one roadway to the other at such intersection.

Servitude - in preparing terms, this normally refers to a part of the subject residential or commercial property over which an engineering service (water lines, power line, sewage centers, and so on) are routed and where such services are protected by reference to a thrall diagram (portraying the area so afflicted). Typically, yoke locations might not be trespassed upon by building structures and the information of such bondages are normally described in a notarial deed of yoke registered in the office of the Registrar of Deeds.

- a diagram authorized by the Surveyor General in terms of the Land Survey Act, representing the limits of a residential or commercial property or a bondage or other acreage. This may consist of a General Plan of an area or a partitioned area where numerous erven or subdivided parts are reviewed one diagram.

Zoning Certificate - a certificate handed down by a municipality certifying that a subject residential or commercial property on its records is subject to a particular set of land use and development controls (zoning provisions). The certificate will usually validate the land usage zoning category under which the subject residential or commercial property is held, with due referral to advancement limitations such as height limitations, coverage limitations, floor area constraints, parking requirements and the like.