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

Bulk - a colloquial description of the quantum of developable floor area that might be established on a subject residential or commercial property in regards to the provisions of a statutory land usage plan. (i.e. the amount of the locations of all floorings of a building on the subject residential or commercial property).

Coverage - a term typically specified 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. In other words, the coverage is a percentage of the land location of the subject residential or commercial property, stemmed from determining such area within the confines of the outer 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 two of area covered by buildings).

CPD - Continued Professional Development

Density - in planning terms, this generally refers to the occupational density which might be allowed on a subject residential or commercial property, usually expressed as a variety of house units per hectare of land. As an example, a density of 20 units per hectare on an erf measuring 1000m ² will translate into an efficient 2 dwelling 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 regulating authority of the planning profession.

EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment, a procedure considered in the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA), which procedure is employed to procure the authorisation of the relevant environmental authority (either provincial or national), to perform a specified activity on a subject residential or commercial property as may be controlled in regards to the policies to NEMA.

FAR/FSR - Floor Area Ratio or Floor Space Ratio. A ratio typically expressed as a numeric figure (i.e. 0.5) being an element that may be increased with the land area of a subject residential or commercial property (usually in square metres), the item of which will define the gross floor location that may be set up on the subject residential or commercial property in terms of a land usage plan (also commonly described as "bulk or bulk aspect"). As an example, the FAR of 0,5, when applied to a website of 1000m ², will equate into a developable gross flooring area of 500m TWO.

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

GLA - in particular land use schemes this is specified as "gross leasable area" or "gross leasable flooring area" or "gross lettable location". Simply put, the location of the building capable of being the subject of a lease contract in between the lessor and the lessee. This will generally exclude non-leasable locations of the structure (common passageways, stairwells, entrance foyers, energy rooms, etc). Usually, when GLA belongs to a land usage scheme, it is normally only appropriate to the estimation of the required variety 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 "company strategy" of the town showing how it will invest its money (and where). A spatial advancement framework illustrates the spatial implications of the IDP.

Line of No Access - the zoning maps which form part of a land usage plan may consist of a reference to a so-called "line of no access", signifying a line (typically along the border boundary of the subject residential or commercial property) along which no gain access to may be supplied 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 roads within the community jurisdiction.

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

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

Ordinance - may refer to the Town Planning 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 procedure of taking care of the change of a land use plan (or any of its arrangements), to alter the land usage rights and advancement constraints suitable to the subject residential or commercial property.

ROD - a Record of Decision as pondered in NEMA, being the composed choice bied far by an environmental authority, following an ecological effect assessment procedure (it might be positive or unfavorable).
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RORA - Removal of Restrictions Act. There are 2 versions particularly:

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

R.O.W - this is a thrall and describes a "right of way". Simply put, it controls access over one residential or commercial property in favour of the next residential or commercial property (comparable to a private 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 qualification 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 pondered 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 advancement in its area of jurisdiction), being an extension of the community IDP.

SDP - a Website Development Plan. This is a strategy normally specified in a land usage scheme which holistically shows the intended development on a subject residential or commercial property, suggesting the position of the proposed structure structures to be erected, gain access to arrangements, the provision of parking, landscaping, the imposition of building lines, the position of thralls and associated 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 converting a residential or commercial property registered as a farm part( s) into (an area 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 situated within the ambit of the town will be paid for land usage rights (zoning) to control and handle using land as authorized by the decision-making authority.

Splay - this generally describes the corner element of the crossway between 2 roads, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the actual roadway surface area, aimed at working out the turning motion of motor cars moving from the one road to the other at such crossway.

Servitude - in planning terms, this normally describes a part of the subject residential or commercial property over which an engineering service (water lines, electrical energy cables, sewage centers, and so on) are routed and where such services are safeguarded by recommendation to a thrall diagram (depicting the location so afflicted). Typically, servitude locations may not be intruded upon by building structures and the details of such servitudes are generally explained in a notarial deed of thrall signed up in the office of the Registrar of Deeds.

SG diagram - a diagram approved by the Surveyor General in terms of the Land Survey Act, representing the limits of a residential or commercial property or a thrall or other acreage. This might include a General Plan of a township or a partitioned area where numerous erven or subdivided portions are reviewed one diagram.

Zoning Certificate - a certificate bied far by a town certifying that a subject residential or commercial property on its records undergoes a specific set of land usage and development controls (zoning provisions). The certificate will usually verify the land use zoning classification under which the subject residential or commercial property is held, with due reference to advancement limitations such as height restrictions, coverage constraints, flooring location constraints, parking requirements and the like.