Usually, the structure line area (also explained as a structure constraint location) might be used for open air parking and landscaping.

Bulk - a colloquial description of the quantum of developable floor location that might be established on a subject residential or commercial property in terms of the arrangements of a statutory land usage plan. (i.e. the amount of the locations of all floorings of a structure on the subject residential or commercial property).

Coverage - a term normally specified 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. To put it simply, the protection is a portion of the land area of the subject residential or commercial property, stemmed from calculating such location within the boundaries of the outer delineation of the footprint of all constructing 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 ² of area covered by structures).

CPD - Continued Professional Development

Density - in planning terms, this usually describes the occupational density which might be permitted on a subject residential or commercial property, normally expressed as a variety of dwelling units per hectare of land. As an example, a density of 20 units per hectare on an erf determining 1000m two will translate into an effective 2 residence units that may be erected 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 preparation profession.

EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment, a procedure pondered in the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA), which treatment is utilized to procure the authorisation of the relevant ecological authority (either provincial or national), to conduct a defined activity on a subject residential or commercial property as may be controlled in regards to 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 a factor 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 location that might be set up on the subject residential or commercial property in terms of a land use scheme (likewise typically referred to as "bulk or bulk element"). As an example, the FAR of 0,5, when applied to a site of 1000m TWO, will translate into a developable gross floor area of 500m TWO.

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

GLA - in specific land use plans this is defined as "gross leasable area" or "gross leasable floor area" or "gross lettable location". To put it simply, the location of the building efficient in being the subject of a lease agreement in between the lessor and the lessee. This will generally exclude non-leasable areas of the building (common passageways, stairwells, entryway foyers, energy spaces, and so on). Usually, when GLA belongs to a land usage plan, it is normally only 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 contemplated in, inter alia, the Local Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act 32 of 2000). This is the personnel "business plan" of the municipality indicating how it will invest its cash (and where). A spatial development framework illustrates the spatial implications of the IDP.

Line of No Access - the zoning maps which form part of a land use scheme might include a recommendation to a so-called "line of no access", denoting a line (generally along the border boundary of the subject residential or commercial property) along which no access might be offered to the subject residential or commercial property from the external roadway system. Typically, such lines of no access apply to provincial and national roadways and higher order roads within the local jurisdiction.

LUS - Land Use Scheme as defined 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).

PI - Professional Indemnity Insurance

Rezoning - a colloquial description of the procedure of taking care of the modification of a land usage scheme (or any of its provisions), to change 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 composed decision handed down by an ecological authority, following an environmental impact assessment treatment (it may be positive or unfavorable).

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

• The National Removal of Restrictions Act, 1967 (suitable 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 yoke and refers to a "access". Simply put, it regulates access over one residential or commercial property in favour of the next residential or commercial property (comparable to a private road).

RPL - Recognition of Prior Learning. The concept of taking prior speculative knowing into account, notwithstanding that an individual might not hold a certified tertiary qualification in the relevant 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 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 municipal IDP.

SDP - a Website Development Plan. This is a plan generally defined in a land usage plan which holistically shows the intended advancement on a subject residential or commercial property, showing the position of the proposed structure structures to be set up, access arrangements, 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 building 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 portion( s) into metropolitan land (a township or residential area) which might include partitioned erven/lots/stands and might consist of streets and public open areas. Simultaneously, the residential or commercial properties located within the ambit of the township will be afforded land usage rights (zoning) to regulate and handle using land as authorized by the decision-making authority.

Splay - this typically describes the corner component of the intersection between 2 roads, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the actual roadway surface area, aimed at negotiating the turning movement 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, power line, sewage facilities, etc) are routed and where such services are safeguarded by reference to a thrall diagram (portraying the area so afflicted). Typically, servitude areas might not be encroached upon by developing structures and the details of such bondages are usually explained in a notarial deed of thrall signed up in the workplace of the Registrar of Deeds.

SG diagram - a diagram authorized by the Surveyor General in regards to the Land Survey Act, denoting the limits of a residential or commercial property or a thrall or other acreage. This might consist of a General Plan of a town or a subdivided area where multiple erven or subdivided portions are reviewed one diagram.

Zoning Certificate - a certificate handed down by a municipality licensing that a subject residential or commercial property on its records undergoes a specific set of land use and development controls (zoning provisions). The certificate will usually validate the land use zoning category under which the subject residential or commercial property is held, with due reference to development constraints such as height restrictions, protection limitations, flooring location restrictions, parking requirements and the like.