Usually, the building line location (likewise described as a structure limitation location) might 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 areas of all floors of a structure on the subject residential or commercial property).
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Coverage - a term generally specified in a land usage scheme 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. In other words, the coverage is a portion of the acreage of the subject residential or commercial property, stemmed from determining such location within the boundaries of the outer 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% coverage on a website of 1000m two will be 400m two of location covered by structures).

CPD - Continued Professional Development

Density - in planning terms, this typically describes the occupational density which may be allowed on a subject residential or commercial property, usually revealed as a variety of house units per hectare of land. As an example, a density of 20 units per hectare on an erf measuring 1000m ² will equate into an efficient 2 home systems that might 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 planning profession.

EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment, a treatment considered in the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA), which treatment is utilized to acquire 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 managed in terms of the guidelines to NEMA.

FAR/FSR - Floor Area Ratio or Floor Space Ratio. A ratio usually expressed 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 (usually in square metres), the item of which will define the gross flooring area that may be erected on the subject residential or commercial property in regards to a land usage plan (also typically described as "bulk or bulk factor"). As an example, the FAR of 0,5, when used to a site of 1000m TWO, will equate into a developable gross flooring location of 500m TWO.

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

GLA - in certain land usage schemes this is defined as "gross leasable location" or "gross leasable floor location" or "gross lettable location". In other words, the location of the building capable of being the topic of a lease contract in between the lessor and the lessee. This will generally leave out non-leasable locations of the building (common passageways, stairwells, entrance foyers, energy spaces, and so on). Usually, when GLA belongs to a land usage scheme, it is generally only appropriate to the calculation of the required number of parking bays to be offered on a subject residential or commercial property.

IDP - Integrated Development Plan as considered in, inter alia, the City government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act 32 of 2000). This is the operative "company strategy" of the town suggesting how it will invest its cash (and where). A spatial development framework illustrates the spatial ramifications of the IDP.

Line of No Access - the zoning maps which form part of a land use plan may consist of a recommendation to a so-called "line of no gain access to", representing a line (normally along the perimeter limit of the subject residential or commercial property) along which no access might be supplied 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 roadways within the municipal jurisdiction.

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

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

Ordinance - may describe 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 procedure of taking care of the modification of a land use plan (or any of its arrangements), to change the land usage rights and development constraints appropriate to the subject residential or commercial property.

ROD - a Record of Decision as contemplated in NEMA, being the composed choice bied far by an authority, following an ecological impact evaluation treatment (it may be favorable 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) (only relevant to Gauteng)

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

RPL - Recognition of Prior Learning. The principle of taking prior speculative learning into account, regardless of that an individual might not hold an accredited 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 contemplated 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 area of jurisdiction), being an extension of the municipal IDP.

SDP - a Website Development Plan. This is a plan generally defined in a land usage scheme which holistically shows the desired advancement on a subject residential or commercial property, indicating the position of the proposed structure structures to be set up, access arrangements, the provision of parking, landscaping, the imposition of structure lines, the position of servitudes and related features. An SDP usually precedes the submission of a structure strategy.

SPLUMA - Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013

Township facility - an integrated procedure of transforming a residential or commercial property signed up as a farm portion( s) into city land (a town or suburb) which might include partitioned erven/lots/stands and may consist of streets and public open spaces. Simultaneously, the residential or commercial properties located within the ambit of the area will be afforded land use rights (zoning) to regulate and handle using land as authorized by the decision-making authority.

Splay - this generally refers to the corner part of the crossway in between two roadways, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the actual roadway surface, targeted at working out the turning movement of motor vehicles moving from the one roadway to the other at such intersection.

Servitude - in planning terms, this generally refers to a part of the subject residential or commercial property over which an engineering service (water lines, power line, sewage centers, and so on) are routed and where such services are safeguarded by referral to a thrall diagram (illustrating the location so afflicted). Typically, thrall areas may not be trespassed upon by constructing structures and the information of such servitudes are generally described in a notarial deed of thrall registered in the office of the Registrar of Deeds.

SG diagram - a diagram approved by the Surveyor General in regards to the Land Survey Act, signifying the limits of a residential or commercial property or a yoke or other acreage. This may consist of a General Plan of a town or a subdivided area where numerous erven or subdivided portions are reflected on one diagram.

Zoning Certificate - a certificate bied far by a town accrediting that a subject residential or commercial property on its records goes through a particular set of land usage and development controls (zoning arrangements). The certificate will usually confirm the land usage zoning category under which the subject residential or commercial property is held, with due referral to advancement restrictions such as height limitations, coverage restrictions, flooring location restrictions, parking requirements and so forth.