Usually, the building line area (likewise referred to as a building restriction area) might be utilized 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 scheme. (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 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, originated from computing such location within the boundaries of the external 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 ² will be 400m ² of location covered by buildings).

CPD - Continued Professional Development

Density - in planning terms, this typically describes the occupational density which may be allowed on a subject residential or commercial property, normally expressed as a number of residence units 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 units that might be erected 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 preparation occupation.

EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment, a treatment contemplated in the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA), which treatment is utilized to procure the authorisation of the relevant ecological authority (either provincial or nationwide), to carry out a specified activity on a subject residential or commercial property as may be controlled in regards to the regulations to NEMA.

FAR/FSR - Floor Area Ratio or Floor Space Ratio. A ratio usually 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 product of which will specify the gross flooring area that might be erected on the subject residential or commercial property in regards to a land use scheme (also frequently referred to as "bulk or bulk aspect"). As an example, the FAR of 0,5, when used to a site of 1000m ², will translate into a developable gross flooring area of 500m ².

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

GLA - in particular land usage schemes this is defined as "gross leasable area" or "gross leasable floor area" or "gross lettable area". Simply put, the area of the structure efficient in being the topic of a lease arrangement between the lessor and the lessee. This will normally exclude non-leasable areas of the structure (common passages, stairwells, entryway foyers, utility rooms, etc). Usually, when GLA is part of a land usage plan, it is generally just pertinent to the calculation of the required 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 "company strategy" of the municipality indicating how it will spend its cash (and where). A spatial advancement structure shows the spatial ramifications of the IDP.

Line of No Access - the zoning maps which form part of a land use plan may consist of a referral to a so-called "line of no access", representing a line (normally along the perimeter boundary of the subject residential or commercial property) along which no gain access to might be provided to the subject residential or commercial property from the external road 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 specified in SPLUMA 2013 (similar to a town 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 procedure of participating in to the change of a land use scheme (or any of its provisions), to change the land usage rights and advancement limitations suitable to the subject residential or commercial property.

ROD - a Record of Decision as pondered in NEMA, being the written choice handed down by an environmental authority, following an ecological effect evaluation procedure (it may be positive or negative).

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

• The National Removal of Restrictions Act, 1967 (appropriate 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 servitude and refers to a "right-of-way". In other words, it controls access over one residential or commercial property in favour of the next residential or commercial property (similar to a private road).

RPL - Recognition of Prior Learning. The concept of taking prior speculative knowing into account, regardless of that a person might not hold an accredited tertiary certification in the appropriate field of endeavour.

SAACPP - South African Association of Consulting Professional Planners

SACPLAN - The South African Council for Planners set up in regards to 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 Local Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act 32 of 2000). A visual illustration of the forward looking policy of a town (its future preferred state of development in its area of jurisdiction), being an extension of the municipal IDP.

SDP - a Website Development Plan. This is a strategy generally defined in a land usage plan which holistically illustrates the intended development on a subject residential or commercial property, suggesting the position of the proposed structure structures to be put up, gain access to provisions, the provision of parking, landscaping, the imposition of structure lines, the position of servitudes and related functions. An SDP normally precedes the submission of a structure plan.

SPLUMA - Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013

Township establishment - an integrated procedure of converting a residential or commercial property registered as a farm part( s) into city land (a town or suburban area) which might consist of partitioned erven/lots/stands and might 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 use rights (zoning) to regulate and manage making use of land as authorized by the decision-making authority.

Splay - this typically refers to the corner component of the crossway between 2 roads, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the actual roadway surface, targeted at working out the turning movement of automobile moving from the one road to the other at such crossway.

Servitude - in planning terms, this usually refers to a part of the subject residential or commercial property over which an engineering service (water lines, electricity cable televisions, sewage facilities, etc) are routed and where such services are safeguarded by reference to a bondage diagram (depicting the area so afflicted). Typically, servitude locations might not be intruded upon by developing structures and the details of such thralls are typically described in a notarial deed of bondage registered in the workplace of the Registrar of Deeds.

SG diagram - a diagram approved by the Surveyor General in regards to the Land Survey Act, representing the borders of a residential or commercial property or a thrall or other land area. This may include a General Plan of an area or a partitioned location where numerous erven or subdivided parts are reviewed one diagram.

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