Usually, the building line location (also described as a structure restriction location) might be used for open air 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 terms of the provisions of a statutory land use plan. (i.e. the amount of the locations of all floors of a structure on the subject residential or commercial property).

Coverage - a term generally defined in a land usage plan 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, derived 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 directly above the subject residential or commercial property (i.e. a 40% protection on a site of 1000m ² will be 400m ² of location covered by structures).

CPD - Continued Professional Development

Density - in planning terms, this normally describes the occupational density which may be allowed on a subject residential or commercial property, typically revealed as a number of residence systems per hectare of land. As an example, a density of 20 systems 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 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 preparation profession.

EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment, a treatment contemplated in the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA), which treatment is employed to obtain the authorisation of the pertinent ecological authority (either provincial or nationwide), 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 generally revealed as a numeric figure (i.e. 0.5) being a factor that might be increased with the land area of a subject residential or commercial property (normally in square metres), the product of which will define the gross floor location that may be put up on the subject residential or commercial property in terms of a land use plan (also frequently referred to as "bulk or bulk factor"). As an example, the FAR of 0,5, when used 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 subdivided erven or farm parts on a single diagram (or a single set of diagrams).

GLA - in certain land usage schemes this is defined as "gross leasable location" or "gross leasable flooring location" or "gross lettable area". In other words, the area of the structure capable of being the subject of a lease contract in between the lessor and the lessee. This will usually exclude non-leasable areas of the structure (communal passageways, stairwells, entrance foyers, utility rooms, etc). Usually, when GLA becomes part of a land use scheme, it is typically just relevant to the computation of the required number 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 operative "business strategy" of the town showing how it will invest its money (and where). A spatial advancement structure illustrates the spatial implications of the IDP.

Line of No Access - the zoning maps which form part of a land usage plan might consist of a recommendation to a so-called "line of no gain access to", signifying a line (generally along the perimeter 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 use to provincial and national roadways and higher order roadways within the community jurisdiction.

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

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

Ordinance - might refer to 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 procedure of taking care of the modification of a land usage plan (or any of its provisions), to alter the land usage rights and development constraints relevant to the subject residential or commercial property.

ROD - a Record of Decision as pondered in NEMA, being the written decision bied far by an ecological authority, following an ecological impact evaluation procedure (it may be positive or negative).

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

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

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

RPL - Recognition of Prior Learning. The concept of taking previous experimental knowing into account, regardless of 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 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 desired state of advancement in its location of jurisdiction), being an extension of the municipal IDP.

SDP - a Website Development Plan. This is a strategy normally defined in a land use scheme which holistically highlights the designated development on a subject residential or commercial property, showing the position of the proposed building structures to be put up, gain access to arrangements, the arrangement of parking, landscaping, the imposition of structure lines, the position of yokes and associated features. An SDP typically precedes the submission of a structure strategy.

SPLUMA - Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013

Township facility - an integrated process of transforming a residential or commercial property registered as a farm part( s) into city land (a town or residential area) which might consist of subdivided erven/lots/stands and might consist of 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 handle the usage of land as approved by the decision-making authority.

Splay - this typically refers to the corner part of the intersection in between 2 roads, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the real road surface, intended at working out the turning motion of motor lorries moving from the one roadway to the other at such crossway.

Servitude - in preparing terms, this typically describes a part of the subject residential or commercial property over which an engineering service (water lines, electrical energy cables, sewage facilities, etc) are routed and where such services are secured by referral to a thrall diagram (illustrating the area so affected). Typically, servitude areas might not be trespassed upon by developing structures and the information of such servitudes are typically explained in a notarial deed of bondage signed up in the workplace of the Registrar of Deeds.

SG diagram - a diagram authorized by the Surveyor General in terms of the Land Survey Act, denoting the borders of a residential or commercial property or a thrall or other acreage. This may include a General Plan of a municipality or a partitioned location where multiple erven or subdivided portions are shown on one diagram.

Zoning Certificate - a certificate handed down by a municipality accrediting that a subject residential or commercial property on its records is subject to a particular set of land usage and development controls (zoning provisions). The certificate will generally confirm the land use zoning classification under which the subject residential or commercial property is held, with due referral to development constraints such as height restrictions, protection constraints, floor location limitations, parking requirements and so forth.