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Usually, the building line location (likewise described as a building restriction area) might be used for outdoors parking and landscaping.

Bulk - a colloquial description of the quantum of developable flooring area that might be established on a subject residential or commercial property in terms of the provisions 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 generally 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. To put it simply, the coverage is a percentage of the acreage of the subject residential or commercial property, stemmed from determining 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 straight above the subject residential or commercial property (i.e. a 40% protection on a site of 1000m ² will be 400m two of location covered by structures).

CPD - Continued Professional Development

Density - in preparing terms, this normally describes the occupational density which may be permitted on a subject residential or commercial property, generally revealed as a variety of house units per hectare of land. As an example, a density of 20 systems per hectare on an 1000m two will translate into a reliable 2 residence 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 controling authority of the preparation occupation.

EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment, a procedure considered in the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA), which treatment is used to acquire the authorisation of the appropriate ecological authority (either provincial or nationwide), to carry out a defined activity on a subject residential or commercial property as may be managed in terms of the policies to NEMA.

FAR/FSR - Floor Area Ratio or Floor Space Ratio. A ratio normally expressed as a numeric figure (i.e. 0.5) being an element that may be increased with the acreage of a subject residential or commercial property (usually in square metres), the item of which will define the gross floor area that might 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 website of 1000m TWO, will equate into a developable gross flooring area of 500m ².

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

GLA - in particular land usage schemes this is specified as "gross leasable area" or "gross leasable flooring area" or "gross lettable location". In other words, the location of the structure efficient in being the topic of a lease contract between the lessor and the lessee. This will typically leave out non-leasable locations of the building (communal passageways, stairwells, entrance foyers, utility spaces, etc). Usually, when GLA is part of a land usage 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 contemplated in, inter alia, the Local Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act 32 of 2000). This is the operative "service strategy" of the municipality showing how it will spend its money (and where). A spatial advancement framework highlights the spatial ramifications of the IDP.

Line of No Access - the zoning maps which form part of a land use scheme might consist of a recommendation to a so-called "line of no gain access to", denoting a line (normally along the border border of the subject residential or commercial property) along which no gain access to may be offered 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 roadways and higher order roads within the local jurisdiction.

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

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

Ordinance - may describe the Town 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 addressing the change of a land use plan (or any of its provisions), to alter the land usage rights and advancement restrictions suitable to the subject residential or commercial property.

ROD - a Record of Decision as contemplated in NEMA, being the composed choice handed down by an environmental authority, following an ecological impact evaluation treatment (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 besides Gauteng). • Gauteng Removal of Restrictions Act, 1996 (Act 3 of 1996) (just relevant to Gauteng)

R.O.W - this is a bondage and describes a "access". In other words, it controls gain access to 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 learning into account, notwithstanding 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 instituted 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 Local Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act 32 of 2000). A visual illustration of the forward looking policy of a municipality (its future wanted state of advancement in its location of jurisdiction), being an extension of the municipal IDP.

SDP - a Site Development Plan. This is a strategy generally specified in a land usage scheme which holistically shows the designated development on a subject residential or commercial property, indicating the position of the proposed building structures to be erected, access provisions, the provision of parking, landscaping, the imposition of building lines, the position of thralls and related features. An SDP normally precedes the submission of a structure strategy.

SPLUMA - Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013

Township establishment - an integrated process of converting 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 areas. Simultaneously, the residential or commercial properties positioned within the ambit of the town will be paid for land use rights (zoning) to control and manage using land as approved by the decision-making authority.

Splay - this generally describes the corner part of the crossway between two roadways, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the real roadway surface area, targeted at negotiating the turning movement of automobile moving from the one roadway 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 secured by referral to a servitude diagram (illustrating the area so affected). Typically, thrall areas might not be trespassed upon by developing structures and the information of such bondages are generally described in a notarial deed of yoke 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, representing the borders of a residential or commercial property or a thrall or other land area. This might include a General Plan of an area or a partitioned location where several erven or subdivided portions are assessed one diagram.

Zoning Certificate - a certificate bied far by a municipality licensing that a subject residential or commercial property on its records goes through a specific set of land use and advancement controls (zoning provisions). The certificate will generally validate the land use zoning classification under which the subject residential or commercial property is held, with due reference to advancement restrictions such as height restrictions, protection limitations, floor area constraints, parking requirements and the like.