Usually, the structure line location (also referred to as a structure restriction area) 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 terms of the provisions of a statutory land usage plan. (i.e. the sum of the locations of all floors of a structure on the subject residential or commercial property).

Coverage - a term normally defined 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 portion of the land area of the subject residential or commercial property, originated from computing such location within the boundaries 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% protection on a site of 1000m two will be 400m two 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, normally expressed as a variety of home systems per hectare of land. As an example, a density of 20 systems per hectare on an erf determining 1000m ² will translate into an effective 2 house units 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 planning profession.

EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment, a treatment contemplated in the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA), which treatment is used to acquire the authorisation of the relevant ecological authority (either provincial or nationwide), to conduct a defined activity on a subject residential or commercial property as might be managed in terms of the guidelines to NEMA.

FAR/FSR - Floor Area Ratio or Floor Space Ratio. A ratio generally expressed 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 may be put up on the subject residential or commercial property in terms of a land use scheme (likewise typically described as "bulk or bulk aspect"). As an example, the FAR of 0,5, when used to a site of 1000m TWO, will translate into a developable gross flooring location of 500m ².

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 particular land usage plans this is defined as "gross leasable location" or "gross leasable flooring location" or "gross lettable area". In other words, the area of the building capable of being the topic of a lease arrangement between the lessor and the lessee. This will typically leave out non-leasable locations of the building (communal passageways, stairwells, entrance foyers, utility spaces, etc). Usually, when GLA is part of a land use scheme, it is typically only pertinent to the calculation of the needed variety of parking bays to be supplied on a subject residential or commercial property.

IDP - Integrated Development Plan as pondered in, inter alia, the City government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act 32 of 2000). This is the personnel "business plan" of the town indicating how it will invest its money (and where). A spatial advancement 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", denoting a line (generally along the border border 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 roadway system. Typically, such lines of no access use to provincial and nationwide roads and greater order roadways within the municipal jurisdiction.

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

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).
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Rezoning - a colloquial description of the procedure of addressing the amendment of a land usage plan (or any of its provisions), to change the land use rights and development restrictions relevant to the subject residential or commercial property.

ROD - a Record of Decision as pondered in NEMA, being the composed decision bied far by an environmental authority, following an environmental impact evaluation treatment (it might be favorable or negative).

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

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

R.O.W - this is a servitude and refers to a "right-of-way". Simply put, it controls gain access to 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 experimental learning into account, notwithstanding that an individual might not hold an accredited tertiary credentials in the appropriate 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 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 wanted state of development in its area of jurisdiction), being an extension of the municipal IDP.

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

SPLUMA - Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013

Township establishment - an integrated procedure of transforming a residential or commercial property registered as a farm portion( s) into metropolitan land (a municipality or residential area) which might include subdivided erven/lots/stands and may include streets and public open spaces. Simultaneously, the residential or commercial properties situated within the ambit of the town will be managed land usage rights (zoning) to manage and manage using land as authorized by the decision-making authority.

Splay - this generally describes the corner element of the intersection between two roadways, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the actual road surface, intended at negotiating the turning movement of motor vehicles moving from the one road to the other at such crossway.

Servitude - in planning terms, this usually refers to 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 protected by referral to a thrall diagram (depicting the area so afflicted). Typically, yoke locations might not be intruded upon by constructing structures and the information of such thralls are usually explained in a notarial deed of yoke signed up in the office of the Registrar of Deeds.
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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 servitude or other acreage. This may consist of a General Plan of an area or a partitioned location where multiple erven or subdivided portions are reviewed one diagram.

Zoning Certificate - a certificate bied far by a municipality licensing that a subject residential or commercial property on its records goes through a specific 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 recommendation to advancement constraints such as height constraints, protection limitations, floor location constraints, parking requirements and so on.