Usually, the structure line location (also explained as a building limitation location) may be utilized for open air 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 regards to the arrangements of a statutory land usage plan. (i.e. the sum of the areas of all floorings of a building on the subject residential or commercial property).

Coverage - a term generally defined in a land usage plan 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 land location of the subject residential or commercial property, derived from calculating such area within the confines 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% protection on a website of 1000m ² will be 400m ² of location covered by structures).
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CPD - Continued Professional Development

Density - in preparing terms, this normally refers to the occupational density which might be permitted on a subject residential or commercial property, usually revealed as a number of home systems per hectare of land. As an example, a density of 20 systems per hectare on an erf determining 1000m ² will translate into an effective 2 dwelling 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 regulating authority of the preparation occupation.
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EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment, a procedure contemplated in the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA), which procedure is utilized to acquire the authorisation of the appropriate ecological authority (either provincial or national), to conduct 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 revealed as a numerical figure (i.e. 0.5) being a factor that may be multiplied with the land location of a subject residential or commercial property (normally in square metres), the product of which will specify the gross floor location that may be put up on the subject residential or commercial property in regards to a land usage scheme (also frequently described as "bulk or bulk aspect"). As an example, the FAR of 0,5, when used to a website of 1000m ², will translate into a developable gross flooring area of 500m TWO.

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

GLA - in specific land use schemes this is defined as "gross leasable location" or "gross leasable floor area" or "gross lettable area". To put it simply, the location of the structure efficient in being the topic of a lease contract between the lessor and the lessee. This will generally leave out non-leasable areas of the structure (common passages, stairwells, entryway foyers, utility spaces, and so on). Usually, when GLA belongs to a land use plan, it is normally just pertinent to the calculation of the needed variety of parking bays to be supplied on a subject residential or commercial property.

IDP - Integrated Development Plan as pondered in, inter alia, the Local Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act 32 of 2000). This is the personnel "service plan" of the town suggesting how it will invest its cash (and where). A spatial advancement framework shows the spatial ramifications of the IDP.

Line of No Access - the zoning maps which form part of a land usage plan might include a referral to a so-called "line of no access", denoting a line (usually along the border boundary of the subject residential or commercial property) along which no gain access to might be supplied to the subject residential or commercial property from the external roadway system. Typically, such lines of no access apply to provincial and nationwide roadways and greater order roadways within the local jurisdiction.

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

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

Ordinance - may refer to 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 attending to the change of a land use scheme (or any of its arrangements), to alter the land use rights and development limitations relevant to the subject residential or commercial property.

ROD - a Record of Decision as pondered in NEMA, being the composed decision handed down by an environmental authority, following an environmental effect assessment treatment (it might be positive or unfavorable).

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

• 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 suitable to Gauteng)

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

RPL - Recognition of Prior Learning. The concept of taking prior speculative learning into account, regardless of that a person may not hold a recognized 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 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 wanted state of development in its location of jurisdiction), being an extension of the municipal IDP.

SDP - a Website Development Plan. This is a strategy generally specified in a land use scheme which holistically illustrates the designated advancement on a subject residential or commercial property, indicating the position of the proposed structure structures to be put up, gain access to provisions, the arrangement of parking, landscaping, the imposition of structure lines, the position of bondages and associated functions. An SDP normally precedes the submission of a building plan.

SPLUMA - Spatial Planning and Land Use Act, 2013

Township establishment - an integrated process of converting a residential or commercial property registered as a farm portion( s) into urban land (a town or suburb) which might consist of partitioned erven/lots/stands and might include streets and public open spaces. Simultaneously, the residential or commercial properties situated within the ambit of the municipality will be managed land usage rights (zoning) to regulate and manage the usage of land as authorized by the decision-making authority.

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

Servitude - in planning terms, this typically describes a part of the subject residential or commercial property over which an engineering service (water lines, electrical energy cable televisions, sewage facilities, etc) are routed and where such services are safeguarded by reference to a servitude diagram (depicting the area so affected). Typically, servitude areas might not be trespassed upon by developing structures and the details of such yokes are typically explained in a notarial deed of yoke signed up in the office of the Registrar of Deeds.

SG diagram - a diagram authorized by the Surveyor General in regards to the Land Survey Act, denoting 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 multiple erven or subdivided parts are assessed one diagram.

Zoning Certificate - a certificate handed down by a town accrediting that a subject residential or commercial property on its records goes through a specific set of land use and development controls (zoning arrangements). The certificate will normally confirm the land use zoning category under which the subject residential or commercial property is held, with due referral to advancement limitations such as height constraints, coverage restrictions, flooring area limitations, parking requirements and the like.