Usually, the structure line area (likewise referred to as a structure restriction 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 terms of the arrangements of a statutory land use scheme. (i.e. the amount of the locations of all floors of a building on the subject residential or commercial property).

Coverage - a term usually defined in a land usage scheme which describes 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 portion of the acreage of the subject residential or commercial property, originated from determining such area within the confines of the outer 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% protection on a site of 1000m ² will be 400m ² of location covered by buildings).

CPD - Continued Professional Development

Density - in planning terms, this usually describes the occupational density which may be permitted on a subject residential or commercial property, typically expressed as a variety of dwelling systems per hectare of land. As an example, a density of 20 systems per hectare on an erf determining 1000m ² will equate into a reliable 2 dwelling units that may be erected 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 procedure contemplated in the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA), which treatment is employed to procure the authorisation of the pertinent environmental authority (either provincial or nationwide), to carry out a defined activity on a subject residential or commercial property as may be managed in regards to the guidelines to NEMA.

FAR/FSR - Floor Area Ratio or Floor Space Ratio. A ratio usually revealed as a numerical figure (i.e. 0.5) being an element that might be multiplied with the acreage of a subject residential or commercial property (typically in square metres), the product of which will define the gross floor area that might be put up on the subject residential or commercial property in terms of a land usage plan (likewise frequently described 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 flooring location of 500m ².

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

GLA - in specific land usage plans this is defined as "gross leasable area" or "gross leasable flooring area" or "gross lettable location". To put it simply, the location of the building capable of being the topic of a lease arrangement between the lessor and the lessee. This will normally omit non-leasable areas of the building (communal passageways, stairwells, entrance foyers, utility spaces, etc). Usually, when GLA belongs to a land usage scheme, it is normally just relevant to the computation of the needed number of parking bays to be provided on a subject residential or commercial property.

IDP - Integrated Development Plan as pondered in, inter alia, the Local Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act 32 of 2000). This is the operative "company strategy" of the town indicating how it will invest its cash (and where). A spatial advancement structure shows the spatial implications of the IDP.

Line of No Access - the zoning maps which form part of a land use scheme might include a referral to a so-called "line of no gain access to", signifying a line (typically along the perimeter boundary of the subject residential or commercial property) along which no access may be supplied to the subject residential or commercial property from the external road system. Typically, such lines of no gain access to apply to provincial and nationwide roadways and greater order roads within the local jurisdiction.

LUS - Land Use Scheme as specified in SPLUMA 2013 (comparable 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).

PI - Professional Indemnity Insurance

Rezoning - a colloquial description of the procedure of addressing the modification of a land use scheme (or any of its provisions), to change the land use rights and advancement limitations suitable to the subject residential or commercial property.

ROD - a Record of Decision as contemplated in NEMA, being the composed choice bied far by an environmental authority, following an environmental impact 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 (appropriate to all provinces other than Gauteng).
• Gauteng Removal of Restrictions Act, 1996 (Act 3 of 1996) (just appropriate to Gauteng)

R.O.W - this is a yoke and describes a "right-of-way". To put it simply, it manages gain access to over one residential or commercial property in favour of the next residential or commercial property (similar to a private road).

RPL - Recognition of Prior Learning. The principle of taking prior experimental learning 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 instituted in terms of the Planning Professions Act, 2002 (Act 36 of 2002).

SAPI - South African Planning Institution

SDF - Spatial Development Framework as considered 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 advancement in its area of jurisdiction), being an extension of the local IDP.

SDP - a Website Development Plan. This is a plan typically specified in a land usage plan which holistically illustrates the desired development on a subject residential or commercial property, showing the position of the proposed building structures to be put up, gain access to provisions, the arrangement of parking, landscaping, the imposition of building lines, the position of thralls and associated functions. An SDP generally precedes the submission of a structure plan.

SPLUMA - Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013

Township establishment - an incorporated process of converting a residential or commercial property registered as a farm portion( s) into metropolitan land (a town or suburban area) which may consist of partitioned erven/lots/stands and may include streets and public open spaces. Simultaneously, the residential or commercial properties located within the ambit of the area will be managed land usage rights (zoning) to manage and handle making use of land as approved by the decision-making authority.

Splay - this usually describes the corner component of the crossway between two roads, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the real roadway surface area, intended at negotiating the turning movement of motor cars moving from the one roadway to the other at such intersection.

Servitude - in planning terms, this usually refers to a part of the subject residential or commercial property over which an engineering service (water lines, electrical power cables, sewage centers, and so on) are routed and where such services are secured by recommendation to a servitude diagram (illustrating the area so afflicted). Typically, thrall areas may not be encroached upon by constructing structures and the details of such thralls are typically explained in a notarial deed of thrall signed up in the workplace of the Registrar of Deeds.

SG diagram - a diagram approved by the Surveyor General in terms of the Land Survey Act, representing the borders of a residential or commercial property or a servitude or other land location. This might consist of a General Plan of a town or a partitioned location where several erven or subdivided portions are reflected on one diagram.

Zoning Certificate - a certificate bied far by a municipality licensing that a subject residential or commercial property on its records undergoes a specific set of land usage and development controls (zoning provisions). The certificate will generally validate the land use zoning classification under which the subject residential or commercial property is held, with due reference to development limitations such as height constraints, coverage restrictions, floor location constraints, parking requirements and so on.