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Usually, the structure line location (likewise referred to as a structure constraint location) may be utilized 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 normally specified 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 acreage of the subject residential or commercial property, derived from calculating such area within the boundaries of the outer delineation of the footprint of all constructing structures on the subject residential or commercial property seen from directly above the subject residential or commercial property (i.e. a 40% coverage 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 permitted on a subject residential or commercial property, normally expressed as a variety of home units per hectare of land. As an example, a density of 20 systems per hectare on an erf measuring 1000m two will translate into an effective 2 residence systems that may be set up 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 preparation occupation.

EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment, a treatment contemplated in the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA), which treatment is utilized to obtain the authorisation of the pertinent environmental authority (either provincial or nationwide), to perform a defined activity on a subject residential or commercial property as might be controlled in regards to the regulations to NEMA.

FAR/FSR - Floor Area Ratio or Floor Space Ratio. A ratio typically expressed as a numeric figure (i.e. 0.5) being an aspect that may be with the land area of a subject residential or commercial property (typically in square metres), the product of which will specify the gross floor location that may be set up on the subject residential or commercial property in terms of a land use scheme (likewise frequently referred to as "bulk or bulk aspect"). As an example, the FAR of 0,5, when used to a site of 1000m ², will equate into a developable gross flooring location of 500m TWO.

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

GLA - in particular land use schemes this is defined as "gross leasable area" 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 in between the lessor and the lessee. This will usually exclude non-leasable areas of the structure (communal passages, stairwells, entryway foyers, utility rooms, etc). Usually, when GLA becomes part of a land use plan, it is normally only pertinent to the calculation of the required number of parking bays to be provided on a subject residential or commercial property.

IDP - Integrated Development Plan as considered in, inter alia, the Local Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act 32 of 2000). This is the operative "organization strategy" of the municipality showing how it will invest its money (and where). A spatial development framework highlights the spatial ramifications of the IDP.

Line of No Access - the zoning maps which form part of a land use plan might consist of a recommendation to a so-called "line of no gain access to", signifying a line (typically along the perimeter 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 road system. Typically, such lines of no gain access to use to provincial and national roads and higher order roads within the local jurisdiction.

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

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

Ordinance - might 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 process of taking care of the amendment of a land use scheme (or any of its provisions), to alter the land usage rights and advancement constraints appropriate to the subject residential or commercial property.

ROD - a Record of Decision as contemplated in NEMA, being the written decision handed down by an ecological 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 (suitable to all provinces besides Gauteng). • Gauteng Removal of Restrictions Act, 1996 (Act 3 of 1996) (only suitable to Gauteng)

R.O.W - this is a thrall 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 (similar to a private street).

RPL - Recognition of Prior Learning. The concept of taking previous speculative knowing into account, notwithstanding that an individual might not hold a recognized tertiary credentials in the appropriate field of endeavour.

SAACPP - South African Association of Consulting Professional Planners

SACPLAN - The South African Council for Planners instituted in regards to the Planning Professions Act, 2002 (Act 36 of 2002).

SAPI - South African Planning Institution

SDF - Spatial Development Framework as pondered 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 preferred state of advancement in its location of jurisdiction), being an extension of the local IDP.

SDP - a Website Development Plan. This is a plan generally defined in a land usage plan which holistically illustrates the intended development on a subject residential or commercial property, showing the position of the proposed structure structures to be erected, gain access to arrangements, the arrangement of parking, landscaping, the imposition of structure lines, the position of bondages and related features. An SDP generally precedes the submission 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 registered as a farm part( s) into urban land (a township or suburb) which may 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 township will be paid for land use rights (zoning) to control and manage making use of land as authorized by the decision-making authority.

Splay - this generally refers to the corner element of the crossway in between two roads, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the real road surface, targeted at working out the turning movement of automobile moving from the one road to the other at such crossway.

Servitude - in preparing terms, this normally describes 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 bondage diagram (illustrating the location so affected). Typically, yoke areas may not be intruded upon by building structures and the information of such yokes are generally described in a notarial deed of servitude registered in the workplace 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, denoting the boundaries of a residential or commercial property or a bondage or other land area. This may include a General Plan of a municipality or a subdivided location where numerous erven or subdivided parts are reviewed one diagram.

Zoning Certificate - a certificate handed down by a town accrediting that a subject residential or commercial property on its records undergoes a specific set of land usage and advancement controls (zoning provisions). The certificate will usually verify the land usage zoning category under which the subject residential or commercial property is held, with due referral to development restrictions such as height restrictions, protection constraints, floor area constraints, parking requirements and so forth.