Usually, the building line location (likewise described as a structure limitation area) might be used for open air parking and landscaping.

Bulk - a colloquial description of the quantum of developable floor location that might be developed on a subject residential or commercial property in terms of the provisions of a statutory land use plan. (i.e. the sum of the locations of all floors of a building on the subject residential or commercial property).

Coverage - a term typically defined in a land usage plan which explains the footprint of a building structure on a subject residential or commercial property, seen from directly 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, stemmed from computing such area within the confines of the outer 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 site of 1000m two will be 400m ² of area covered by structures).

CPD - Continued Professional Development
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Density - in planning terms, this usually describes the occupational density which may be allowed on a subject residential or commercial property, normally revealed as a number of dwelling systems per hectare of land. As an example, a density of 20 systems per hectare on an erf determining 1000m two will equate into a reliable 2 residence 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 regulating authority of the preparation occupation.
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EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment, a treatment contemplated in the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA), which treatment is used to obtain the authorisation of the appropriate ecological authority (either provincial or national), to carry out a defined activity on a subject residential or commercial property as might be controlled in terms of the policies to NEMA.

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

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

GLA - in certain land use schemes this is specified as "gross leasable location" or "gross leasable floor area" or "gross lettable area". Simply put, the location of the building capable of being the subject of a lease agreement between the lessor and the lessee. This will normally leave out non-leasable areas of the structure (communal passageways, stairwells, entryway foyers, energy rooms, etc). Usually, when GLA becomes part of a land usage plan, it is normally just pertinent to the estimation of the required number 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 operative "company plan" of the municipality suggesting how it will invest its money (and where). A spatial advancement framework illustrates the spatial implications of the IDP.

Line of No Access - the zoning maps which form part of a land use scheme might consist of a recommendation to a so-called "line of no access", denoting a line (typically along the perimeter border of the subject residential or commercial property) along which no access might be provided to the subject residential or commercial property from the external road system. Typically, such lines of no gain access to apply to provincial and national roadways and higher order roadways within the municipal jurisdiction.

LUS - Land Use Scheme as specified in SPLUMA 2013 (comparable to a town 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 process of attending to the amendment of a land usage plan (or any of its arrangements), to alter 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 written choice bied far by an ecological authority, following an ecological effect evaluation treatment (it might be positive or unfavorable).

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

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

R.O.W - this is a yoke and refers to a "access". In other words, it regulates access over one residential or commercial property in favour of the next residential or commercial property (comparable to a personal road).

RPL - Recognition of Prior Learning. The principle of taking previous experimental learning into account, notwithstanding that an individual may not hold a recognized tertiary qualification in the pertinent 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 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 development in its location of jurisdiction), being an extension of the community IDP.

SDP - a Website Development Plan. This is a strategy usually specified in a land use plan which holistically illustrates the desired development on a subject residential or commercial property, indicating the position of the proposed building structures to be put up, gain access to arrangements, the arrangement of parking, landscaping, the imposition of building lines, the position of bondages and associated features. An SDP typically precedes the of a structure strategy.

SPLUMA - Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013

Township establishment - an incorporated process of converting a residential or commercial property signed up as a farm part( s) into city land (an area or residential area) which might include subdivided erven/lots/stands and might include streets and public open areas. Simultaneously, the residential or commercial properties situated within the ambit of the town will be paid for land use rights (zoning) to regulate and handle the use of land as approved by the decision-making authority.

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

Servitude - in preparing terms, this normally refers to a part of the subject residential or commercial property over which an engineering service (water lines, electrical energy cables, sewage facilities, and so on) are routed and where such services are secured by referral to a bondage diagram (illustrating the area so afflicted). Typically, thrall areas may not be encroached upon by building structures and the details of such servitudes are normally explained in a notarial deed of servitude registered in the workplace of the Registrar of Deeds.

SG diagram - a diagram approved by the Surveyor General in terms of the Land Survey Act, signifying the limits of a residential or commercial property or a bondage or other land area. This may include a General Plan of a town or a subdivided location where numerous erven or partitioned parts are reviewed one diagram.

Zoning Certificate - a certificate handed down by a town licensing that a subject residential or commercial property on its records goes through a specific set of land usage and advancement 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 reference to advancement restrictions such as height restrictions, coverage constraints, floor location limitations, parking requirements and so on.