Usually, the structure line area (likewise explained as a structure restriction area) might be utilized for open air parking and landscaping.

Bulk - a colloquial description of the quantum of developable floor location that may be developed on a subject residential or commercial property in terms of the arrangements of a statutory land use scheme. (i.e. the amount of the areas of all floors of a building on the subject residential or commercial property).

Coverage - a term usually 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. Simply put, the coverage is a percentage of the acreage of the subject residential or commercial property, originated from computing such location within the confines of the external delineation of the footprint of all constructing 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 two will be 400m ² of area covered by buildings).

CPD - Continued Professional Development

Density - in planning terms, this usually describes the occupational density which might be permitted on a subject residential or commercial property, generally 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 translate into a reliable 2 house systems 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 controling authority of the planning occupation.

EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment, a treatment contemplated in the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA), which procedure is utilized to acquire the authorisation of the pertinent environmental authority (either provincial or nationwide), to carry out a specified activity on a subject residential or commercial property as may be managed in regards to the guidelines to NEMA.
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FAR/FSR - Floor Area Ratio or Floor Space Ratio. A ratio normally revealed as a numerical figure (i.e. 0.5) being an aspect that might be increased with the acreage of a subject residential or commercial property (normally in square metres), the product of which will specify the gross flooring location that might be set up on the subject residential or commercial property in terms of a land usage scheme (also commonly described as "bulk or bulk aspect"). As an example, the FAR of 0,5, when used to a site of 1000m TWO, will translate into a developable gross flooring area of 500m TWO.

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

GLA - in particular land usage plans this is specified as "gross leasable location" or "gross leasable flooring location" or "gross lettable area". In other words, the area of the building capable of being the topic of a lease contract in between the lessor and the lessee. This will normally omit non-leasable locations of the structure (common passageways, stairwells, entrance foyers, energy rooms, etc). Usually, when GLA is part of a land use scheme, it is generally just pertinent to the calculation of the needed number of parking bays to be supplied on a subject residential or commercial property.

IDP - Integrated Development Plan as contemplated in, inter alia, the City government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act 32 of 2000). This is the personnel "business plan" of the municipality suggesting how it will invest its cash (and where). A spatial development structure illustrates the spatial implications of the IDP.

Line of No Access - the zoning maps which form part of a land usage scheme may consist of a referral to a so-called "line of no access", representing a line (usually along the perimeter boundary 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 roadway system. Typically, such lines of no access use to provincial and national roadways and higher order roadways within the local jurisdiction.

LUS - Land Use Scheme as defined in SPLUMA 2013 (similar 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 taking care of the amendment of a land usage scheme (or any of its arrangements), to alter the land use rights and development restrictions appropriate to the subject residential or commercial property.

ROD - a Record of Decision as pondered in NEMA, being the composed decision bied far by an environmental authority, following an ecological impact evaluation procedure (it might be favorable or unfavorable).

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

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

R.O.W - this is a bondage and refers to a "right-of-way". In other words, it manages access over one residential or commercial property in favour of the next residential or commercial property (comparable to a personal road).

RPL - Recognition of Prior Learning. The principle of taking prior experimental knowing into account, regardless of that an individual may not hold a certified tertiary certification in the appropriate 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
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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 municipality (its future wanted state of development in its location of jurisdiction), being an extension of the municipal IDP.

SDP - a Site Development Plan. This is a strategy usually defined in a land usage scheme which holistically shows the designated development on a subject residential or commercial property, indicating the position of the proposed structure structures to be set up, access arrangements, the arrangement of parking, landscaping, the imposition of structure lines, the position of bondages and related features. An SDP generally precedes the submission of a building strategy.

SPLUMA - Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013

Township facility - an incorporated process of transforming a residential or commercial property signed up as a farm portion( s) into city land (an area or suburb) which may include partitioned erven/lots/stands and may include streets and public open areas. Simultaneously, the residential or commercial properties situated within the ambit of the area will be afforded land usage rights (zoning) to regulate and handle making use of land as authorized by the decision-making authority.

Splay - this typically describes the corner part of the between 2 roads, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the actual roadway surface, targeted at negotiating the turning motion of automobile moving from the one roadway to the other at such crossway.

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 energy cable televisions, sewage centers, etc) are routed and where such services are safeguarded by referral to a thrall diagram (depicting the area so affected). Typically, thrall locations may not be trespassed upon by constructing structures and the information of such thralls are usually described in a notarial deed of servitude registered 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 borders of a residential or commercial property or a yoke or other land location. This might include a General Plan of an area or a partitioned location where numerous erven or subdivided parts are reflected on one diagram.

Zoning Certificate - a certificate handed down by a municipality certifying that a subject residential or commercial property on its records undergoes a particular set of land usage and advancement controls (zoning provisions). The certificate will typically verify the land use zoning classification under which the subject residential or commercial property is held, with due referral to development restrictions such as height restrictions, protection restrictions, floor location constraints, parking requirements and so on.