Usually, the structure line area (also referred to as a building limitation location) might be used for open air parking and landscaping.
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Bulk - a colloquial description of the quantum of developable floor location that may be established on a subject residential or commercial property in regards to the provisions of a statutory land use scheme. (i.e. the amount of the locations 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. To put it simply, the protection is a percentage of the acreage of the subject residential or commercial property, stemmed from computing such area within the boundaries 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 website of 1000m ² will be 400m two of location covered by structures).

CPD - Continued Professional Development

Density - in preparing terms, this generally refers to the occupational density which may be allowed on a subject residential or commercial property, normally revealed as a number of home units per hectare of land. As an example, a density of 20 units per hectare on an erf measuring 1000m two will translate into a reliable 2 dwelling units that might be put 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 controling authority of the planning occupation.

EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment, a procedure considered in the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA), which procedure is used to acquire the authorisation of the appropriate ecological authority (either provincial or nationwide), to perform a specified activity on a subject residential or commercial property as might be managed in terms of the regulations to NEMA.

FAR/FSR - Floor Area Ratio or Floor Space Ratio. A ratio generally revealed as a numerical figure (i.e. 0.5) being a factor that may be increased with the acreage of a subject residential or commercial property (typically in square metres), the product of which will define the gross flooring area that might be erected on the subject residential or commercial property in regards to a land use scheme (also typically referred to as "bulk or bulk aspect"). As an example, the FAR of 0,5, when used to a website of 1000m TWO, will translate into a developable gross floor area of 500m ².

General Plan - this is a SG Diagram reflecting several erven and streets or subdivided erven or farm parts on a single diagram (or a single set of diagrams).

GLA - in particular land usage plans this is defined as "gross leasable area" or "gross leasable floor location" or "gross lettable location". Simply put, the area of the structure efficient in being the subject of a lease agreement in between the lessor and the lessee. This will normally exclude non-leasable locations of the structure (communal passages, stairwells, entryway foyers, utility spaces, and so on). Usually, when GLA belongs to a land usage scheme, it is normally only pertinent to the calculation of the required variety of parking bays to be provided 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 strategy" of the municipality suggesting how it will spend its money (and where). A spatial development structure shows the spatial implications of the IDP.

Line of No Access - the zoning maps which form part of a land usage plan may consist of a reference to a so-called "line of no access", representing a line (usually along the border border of the subject residential or commercial property) along which no access might be offered 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 roads and higher order roads within the community jurisdiction.

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

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

Ordinance - may describe 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 procedure of attending to the change of a land use scheme (or any of its provisions), to alter 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 written choice bied far by an environmental authority, following an ecological effect evaluation treatment (it might be positive or negative).

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

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

R.O.W - this is a thrall and describes a "right of method". To put it simply, it controls gain access to over one residential or commercial property in favour of the next residential or commercial property (comparable to a private street).

RPL - Recognition of Prior Learning. The principle of taking prior speculative learning into account, notwithstanding that an individual may not hold a certified tertiary qualification 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 City Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act 32 of 2000). A visual illustration of the forward looking policy of a town (its future wanted state of advancement in its location of jurisdiction), being an extension of the community IDP.

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

SPLUMA - Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013

Township establishment - an incorporated procedure of transforming a residential or commercial property registered as a farm part( s) into city land (a township or residential area) which might include partitioned erven/lots/stands and may include streets and public open spaces. Simultaneously, the residential or commercial properties positioned within the ambit of the town will be managed land use rights (zoning) to control and handle the use of land as authorized by the decision-making authority.

Splay - this generally describes the corner component of the intersection between 2 roads, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the real roadway surface, targeted at working out the turning motion of automobile moving from the one road 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, etc) are routed and where such services are by referral to a bondage diagram (illustrating the location so affected). Typically, servitude areas might not be encroached upon by building structures and the details of such servitudes are typically described in a notarial deed of thrall signed up in the workplace of the Registrar of Deeds.
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SG diagram - a diagram authorized by the Surveyor General in regards to the Land Survey Act, representing the limits of a residential or commercial property or a servitude or other acreage. This might include a General Plan of an area or a partitioned area where numerous erven or partitioned 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 goes through a specific set of land use 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 recommendation to advancement constraints such as height constraints, protection restrictions, floor area restrictions, parking requirements and so on.