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Usually, the building line area (also described as a building restriction area) may be utilized for open air parking and landscaping.
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Bulk - a colloquial description of the quantum of developable floor location that may be established on a subject residential or commercial property in regards to the arrangements of a statutory land use plan. (i.e. the amount of the areas of all floorings of a building on the subject residential or commercial property).
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Coverage - a term normally defined in a land usage 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. To put it simply, the protection is a portion of the land area of the subject residential or commercial property, obtained from calculating such area within the boundaries of the external delineation of the footprint of all building 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 site of 1000m two will be 400m ² of location covered by buildings).

CPD - Continued Professional Development

Density - in preparing terms, this usually refers to the occupational density which may be permitted on a subject residential or commercial property, usually expressed as a variety of residence units per hectare of land. As an example, a density of 20 systems per hectare on an erf determining 1000m ² will equate into an effective 2 house units that might be set up 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 managing authority of the preparation profession.

EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment, a procedure considered in the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA), which procedure is used to obtain the authorisation of the appropriate environmental authority (either provincial or nationwide), to perform a specified activity on a subject residential or commercial property as might be controlled in regards to the guidelines to NEMA.

FAR/FSR - Floor Area Ratio or Floor Space Ratio. A ratio typically expressed as a numerical figure (i.e. 0.5) being a factor that might be multiplied with the land area of a subject residential or commercial property (generally in square metres), the product of which will define the gross flooring location that may be put up on the subject residential or commercial property in regards to a land usage scheme (also frequently referred to as "bulk or bulk element"). As an example, the FAR of 0,5, when applied to a website of 1000m ², will equate into a developable gross flooring location of 500m ².

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

GLA - in certain land use plans this is specified as "gross leasable location" or "gross leasable floor area" or "gross lettable area". In other words, the location of the building capable of being the topic of a lease arrangement between the lessor and the lessee. This will generally omit non-leasable locations of the building (common passages, stairwells, entrance foyers, utility rooms, and so on). Usually, when GLA is part of a land usage scheme, it is typically only pertinent 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 Local Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act 32 of 2000). This is the personnel "business strategy" of the town indicating how it will spend its money (and where). A spatial advancement framework highlights the spatial implications of the IDP.

Line of No Access - the zoning maps which form part of a land usage scheme might include a reference to a so-called "line of no gain access to", denoting a line (generally along the border boundary 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 access use to provincial and and greater order roads 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 procedure of taking care of the amendment of a land use scheme (or any of its arrangements), to change the land use rights and advancement constraints applicable to the subject residential or commercial property.

ROD - a Record of Decision as contemplated in NEMA, being the written choice bied far by an ecological authority, following an ecological effect evaluation treatment (it might be favorable or unfavorable).

RORA - Removal of Restrictions Act. There are 2 versions namely:

• The National Removal of Restrictions Act, 1967 (appropriate to all provinces besides Gauteng). • Gauteng Removal of Restrictions Act, 1996 (Act 3 of 1996) (just applicable to Gauteng)

R.O.W - this is a yoke and refers to a "access". To put it simply, it controls gain access to over one residential or commercial property in favour of the next residential or commercial property (comparable to a private highway).

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

SDP - a Website Development Plan. This is a strategy usually specified in a land use plan which holistically shows the desired advancement on a subject residential or commercial property, suggesting the position of the proposed structure structures to be put up, gain access to arrangements, the arrangement of parking, landscaping, the imposition of building lines, the position of bondages and associated features. An SDP typically precedes the submission of a structure strategy.

SPLUMA - Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013

Township facility - an integrated process of transforming a residential or commercial property registered as a farm portion( s) into metropolitan land (a town or suburban area) which might include partitioned erven/lots/stands and may consist of streets and public open spaces. Simultaneously, the residential or commercial properties situated within the ambit of the municipality will be afforded land usage rights (zoning) to regulate and handle making use of land as approved by the decision-making authority.

Splay - this usually refers to the corner part of the crossway between 2 roadways, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the real road surface, focused on working out the turning motion 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, power line, sewage facilities, etc) are routed and where such services are safeguarded by recommendation to a bondage diagram (depicting the location so afflicted). Typically, servitude areas may not be intruded upon by building structures and the details of such bondages are usually 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, denoting the boundaries of a residential or commercial property or a thrall or other acreage. This might include a General Plan of an area or a subdivided area where numerous erven or subdivided parts are shown on one diagram.

Zoning Certificate - a certificate handed down by a municipality accrediting 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 normally validate the land use zoning classification under which the subject residential or commercial property is held, with due recommendation to development constraints such as height restrictions, coverage constraints, flooring location restrictions, parking requirements and the like.