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

Bulk - a colloquial description of the quantum of developable flooring location that may be developed on a subject residential or commercial property in regards to the arrangements of a statutory land usage scheme. (i.e. the amount of the locations of all floorings of a building on the subject residential or commercial property).

Coverage - a term generally defined in a land usage scheme which describes the footprint of a building structure on a subject residential or commercial property, seen from straight above the subject residential or commercial property. In other words, the coverage is a portion of the land area of the subject residential or commercial property, stemmed from calculating such area within the confines of the external delineation of the footprint of all developing 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 website of 1000m ² will be 400m two of area covered by buildings).

CPD - Continued Professional Development

Density - in planning terms, this generally describes the occupational density which may be allowed on a subject residential or commercial property, typically expressed as a variety of house systems per hectare of land. As an example, a density of 20 systems per hectare on an erf determining 1000m two will translate into an effective 2 home units that might 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 planning occupation.

EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment, a procedure considered in the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA), which procedure is employed to acquire the authorisation of the relevant environmental authority (either provincial or national), to conduct a specified activity on a subject residential or commercial property as may be regulated in regards to the policies to NEMA.

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

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

GLA - in particular land usage plans this is specified as "gross leasable location" or "gross leasable floor location" or "gross lettable location". In other words, the area of the structure capable of being the subject of a lease arrangement between the lessor and the lessee. This will usually leave out non-leasable areas of the building (communal passageways, stairwells, entryway foyers, utility spaces, and so on). Usually, when GLA belongs to a land use plan, it is normally just relevant to the calculation of the needed number of parking bays to be offered on a subject residential or commercial property.

IDP - Integrated Development Plan as contemplated in, inter alia, the City 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 advancement framework illustrates the spatial ramifications 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", signifying a line (typically along the perimeter boundary of the subject residential or commercial property) along which no gain access to may be provided to the subject residential or commercial property from the external roadway system. Typically, such lines of no gain access to use to provincial and nationwide roads and higher order roadways within the municipal 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 refer to the Town 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 change of a land usage scheme (or any of its provisions), to change the land use rights and development constraints relevant to the subject residential or commercial property.

ROD - a Record of Decision as considered in NEMA, being the written choice handed down by an ecological authority, following an environmental impact evaluation procedure (it may be positive or unfavorable).

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) (only applicable to Gauteng)

R.O.W - this is a thrall and describes a "right-of-way". Simply put, it regulates gain access to over one residential or commercial property in favour of the next residential or commercial property (similar to a personal road).

RPL - Recognition of Prior Learning. The concept of taking prior experimental learning into account, regardless of that a person may not hold an accredited tertiary credentials in the relevant 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 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 town (its future desired state of development in its area of jurisdiction), being an extension of the local IDP.

SDP - a Site Development Plan. This is a strategy usually specified in a land usage plan which holistically illustrates the designated development on a subject residential or commercial property, showing the position of the proposed structure structures to be erected, gain access to provisions, the arrangement of parking, landscaping, the imposition of building lines, the position of thralls and associated features. An SDP normally precedes the submission of a structure plan.

SPLUMA - Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013

Township establishment - an incorporated procedure of transforming a residential or commercial property signed up as a farm part( s) into urban land (an area or residential area) which might include subdivided erven/lots/stands and may consist of streets and public open areas. Simultaneously, the residential or commercial properties situated within the ambit of the township will be afforded land usage rights (zoning) to manage and handle making use of land as authorized by the decision-making authority.

Splay - this typically refers to the corner element of the intersection between two roadways, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the real roadway surface, aimed at negotiating the turning movement of automobile moving from the one road 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 energy cables, sewage facilities, etc) are routed and where such services are safeguarded by referral to a thrall diagram (illustrating the area so afflicted). Typically, servitude locations might not be trespassed upon by building structures and the information of such thralls are normally explained in a notarial deed of yoke signed up in the office 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 yoke or other land location. This may consist of a General Plan of a municipality or a partitioned location where numerous erven or partitioned parts are shown on one diagram.

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