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Usually, the structure line area (also described as a building limitation 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 areas of all floorings of a structure on the subject residential or commercial property).

Coverage - a term normally defined in a land use plan 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 protection is a portion of the acreage of the subject residential or commercial property, stemmed from determining such area within the confines 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% protection on a site of 1000m two will be 400m ² of area covered by buildings).

CPD - Continued Professional Development

Density - in planning terms, this normally describes the occupational density which may be allowed on a subject residential or commercial property, normally revealed as a variety of home units 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 dwelling systems 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 regulating authority of the preparation profession.

EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment, a treatment considered in the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA), which procedure is used to acquire the authorisation of the pertinent ecological authority (either provincial or nationwide), to conduct a specified activity on a subject residential or commercial property as might be managed in terms of 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 a factor that may be multiplied with the land area of a subject residential or commercial property (typically in square metres), the product of which will define the gross flooring area that might be put up on the subject residential or commercial property in regards to a land use plan (also frequently referred to as "bulk or bulk element"). As an example, the FAR of 0,5, when used to a site of 1000m ², will equate into a developable gross floor location of 500m ².

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

GLA - in particular land use plans this is specified as "gross leasable location" or "gross leasable floor area" or "gross lettable area". Simply put, the location of the building efficient in being the subject of a lease arrangement in between the lessor and the lessee. This will normally omit non-leasable locations of the structure (common passageways, stairwells, entrance foyers, utility rooms, etc). Usually, when GLA is part of a land use plan, it is generally just pertinent to the calculation of the needed number of parking bays to be provided 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 "service plan" of the municipality suggesting how it will invest its cash (and where). A spatial advancement structure highlights the spatial implications of the IDP.

Line of No Access - the zoning maps which form part of a land usage scheme might consist of a reference to a so-called "line of no access", representing a line (usually along the perimeter limit of the subject residential or commercial property) along which no gain access to might be offered to the subject residential or commercial property from the external road system. Typically, such lines of no gain access to use to provincial and nationwide roadways and greater order roads within the community jurisdiction.

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

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

Ordinance - may refer to the Town and 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 amendment of a land use plan (or any of its provisions), 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 handed down by an ecological authority, following an environmental effect assessment procedure (it might be positive or unfavorable).

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

• 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 suitable to Gauteng)

R.O.W - this is a yoke and describes a "right of method". In other words, it controls access over one residential or commercial property in favour of the next residential or commercial property (comparable to a private street).

RPL - Recognition of Prior Learning. The principle of taking prior experimental learning into account, notwithstanding that a person might not hold a certified tertiary certification 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 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 area of jurisdiction), being an extension of the community IDP.

SDP - a Site Development Plan. This is a strategy generally specified in a land use plan which holistically shows the desired advancement on a subject residential or commercial property, indicating the position of the proposed building structures to be put up, gain access to arrangements, the provision of parking, landscaping, the imposition of structure lines, the position of bondages and associated features. An SDP usually 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 portion( s) into city land (a municipality or suburb) which might include partitioned erven/lots/stands and might include streets and public open areas. Simultaneously, the residential or commercial properties positioned within the ambit of the municipality will be afforded land usage rights (zoning) to regulate and handle the use of land as authorized by the decision-making authority.

Splay - this normally refers to the corner part of the crossway in between two roadways, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the real roadway surface area, aimed at negotiating the turning motion of automobile moving from the one road to the other at such intersection.

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 power cable televisions, sewage facilities, and so on) are routed and where such services are secured by reference to a bondage diagram (portraying the location so afflicted). Typically, thrall areas may not be trespassed upon by building structures and the information of such servitudes are generally explained in a notarial deed of thrall registered in the office of the Registrar of Deeds.

SG diagram - a diagram authorized by the Surveyor General in terms of the Land Survey Act, representing the borders of a residential or commercial property or a servitude or other acreage. This might include 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 certifying that a subject residential or commercial property on its records is subject to a particular set of land use and advancement controls (zoning provisions). The certificate will usually verify the land usage zoning classification under which the subject residential or commercial property is held, with due reference to development restrictions such as height limitations, protection constraints, flooring location limitations, parking requirements and the like.