Usually, the building line area (also referred to as a structure restriction location) might be used for outdoors parking and landscaping.

Bulk - a colloquial description of the quantum of developable flooring area that may be established on a subject residential or commercial property in terms of the provisions of a statutory land usage plan. (i.e. the sum of the areas of all floorings of a structure on the subject residential or commercial property).

Coverage - a term generally defined 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. To put it simply, the protection is a percentage of the acreage of the subject residential or commercial property, originated from computing such area within the boundaries of the outer delineation of the footprint of all building 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 site of 1000m two will be 400m ² of location covered by buildings).

CPD - Continued Professional Development

Density - in planning terms, this normally refers to the occupational density which might be allowed on a subject residential or commercial property, normally revealed as a number of home 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 efficient 2 dwelling units that might be put 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 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 environmental authority (either provincial or national), to carry out a defined activity on a subject residential or commercial property as might be regulated in regards to the regulations to NEMA.

FAR/FSR - Floor Area Ratio or Floor Space Ratio. A ratio usually revealed 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 (typically in square metres), the item of which will define the gross floor location that might be set up on the subject residential or commercial property in regards to a land usage scheme (also frequently described as "bulk or bulk factor"). As an example, the FAR of 0,5, when used to a website of 1000m TWO, will translate into a developable gross floor 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 particular land use schemes this is defined as "gross leasable area" or "gross leasable flooring location" or "gross lettable area". To put it simply, the location of the building capable of being the subject of a lease agreement between the lessor and the lessee. This will usually omit non-leasable locations of the structure (common passageways, stairwells, entrance foyers, energy spaces, and so on). Usually, when GLA becomes part of a land usage scheme, it is normally only appropriate to the calculation of the required variety of parking bays to be supplied 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 "organization strategy" of the town showing how it will spend its cash (and where). A spatial advancement structure illustrates the spatial implications of the IDP.

Line of No Access - the zoning maps which form part of a land use scheme may consist of a referral to a so-called "line of no access", denoting a line (normally along the perimeter limit of the subject residential or commercial property) along which no access may be supplied 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 local jurisdiction.

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

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 addressing the modification of a land usage scheme (or any of its provisions), to alter the land use rights and advancement limitations applicable to the subject residential or commercial property.

ROD - a Record of Decision as considered in NEMA, being the written decision handed down by an ecological authority, following an ecological effect assessment treatment (it might be favorable or negative).

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

• The National Removal of Restrictions Act, 1967 (applicable to all provinces other than Gauteng). • Gauteng Removal of Restrictions Act, 1996 (Act 3 of 1996) (only applicable to Gauteng)

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

RPL - Recognition of Prior Learning. The principle of taking prior experimental knowing into account, notwithstanding that a person may not hold a certified tertiary qualification 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 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 desired state of development in its area of jurisdiction), being an extension of the community IDP.

SDP - a Website Development Plan. This is a plan normally specified in a land use plan which holistically highlights the desired development 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 building lines, the position of yokes and associated functions. An SDP typically precedes the submission of a building plan.

SPLUMA - Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013

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

Splay - this normally refers to the corner component of the crossway between two roadways, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the real roadway surface, targeted at working out the turning movement of motor cars moving from the one roadway to the other at such crossway.

Servitude - in preparing terms, this generally describes a part of the subject residential or over which an engineering service (water lines, electrical power cable televisions, sewage facilities, etc) are routed and where such services are safeguarded by referral to a thrall diagram (illustrating the location so affected). Typically, servitude locations might not be intruded upon by constructing structures and the details of such servitudes are normally 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 regards to the Land Survey Act, signifying the limits 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 area where multiple erven or subdivided parts are reviewed one diagram.

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