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Usually, the building line area (likewise described as a structure restriction area) might be utilized for open air parking and landscaping.
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Bulk - a colloquial description of the quantum of developable floor 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 amount of the locations of all floors of a building on the subject residential or commercial property).

Coverage - a term usually specified in a land usage plan which explains 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 portion of the land area of the subject residential or commercial property, derived from computing 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).

CPD - Continued Professional Development

Density - in planning terms, this usually refers to the occupational density which may be permitted on a subject residential or commercial property, normally revealed as a variety of home units per hectare of land. As an example, a density of 20 systems per hectare on an erf measuring 1000m ² will translate into a reliable 2 residence units 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 managing authority of the planning profession.

EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment, a treatment contemplated in the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA), which procedure is used to obtain the authorisation of the relevant environmental authority (either provincial or nationwide), to conduct 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 normally revealed as a numeric figure (i.e. 0.5) being a factor that may be multiplied with the acreage of a subject residential or commercial property (typically in square metres), the product of which will specify the gross floor location that may be set up on the subject residential or commercial property in regards to a land use scheme (likewise typically described as "bulk or bulk aspect"). As an example, the FAR of 0,5, when applied to a site of 1000m TWO, will translate into a developable gross floor area of 500m TWO.

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

GLA - in certain land usage schemes this is specified as "gross leasable area" or "gross leasable floor location" or "gross lettable area". Simply put, the location of the structure capable of being the topic of a lease contract between the lessor and the lessee. This will typically exclude non-leasable locations of the structure (communal passageways, stairwells, entryway foyers, utility spaces, etc). Usually, when to a land usage plan, it is generally only relevant to the estimation of the needed variety of parking bays to be supplied on a subject residential or commercial property.

IDP - Integrated Development Plan as considered in, inter alia, the City government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act 32 of 2000). This is the operative "business plan" of the town suggesting how it will invest its cash (and where). A spatial development framework illustrates the spatial ramifications 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 gain access to", signifying a line (normally along the perimeter border of the subject residential or commercial property) along which no access may be provided to the subject residential or commercial property from the external roadway system. Typically, such lines of no gain access to apply to provincial and nationwide roadways and greater order roadways within the municipal jurisdiction.

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

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

Ordinance - might describe the Town Planning 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 participating in to the amendment of a land usage scheme (or any of its provisions), to change the land usage rights and development constraints 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 environmental impact assessment procedure (it might be positive or unfavorable).

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

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

R.O.W - this is a thrall and refers to a "right of method". Simply put, it manages access 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 principle of taking prior speculative knowing into account, regardless of that a person might not hold a recognized 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 terms of 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 advancement in its location of jurisdiction), being an extension of the municipal IDP.

SDP - a Website Development Plan. This is a plan normally defined in a land use plan which holistically shows the intended advancement on a subject residential or commercial property, indicating the position of the proposed building structures to be set up, gain access to provisions, the arrangement of parking, landscaping, the imposition of building lines, the position of bondages and related features. An SDP normally precedes the submission of a building plan.

SPLUMA - Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013

Township facility - an incorporated procedure of transforming a residential or commercial property signed up as a farm part( s) into city land (a municipality or residential area) which might include partitioned erven/lots/stands and might consist of streets and public open spaces. Simultaneously, the residential or commercial properties situated within the ambit of the area will be afforded land usage rights (zoning) to control and manage using land as authorized by the decision-making authority.

Splay - this normally refers to the corner element of the intersection between two roads, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the actual road surface area, intended at working out the turning movement of motor vehicles moving from the one roadway to the other at such crossway.

Servitude - in preparing terms, this typically refers to a part of the subject residential or commercial property over which an engineering service (water lines, electrical energy cable televisions, sewage facilities, and so on) are routed and where such services are secured by referral to a servitude diagram (depicting the location so affected). Typically, thrall areas might not be intruded upon by developing structures and the details of such servitudes are usually explained in a notarial deed of servitude signed up in the office of the Registrar of Deeds.
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SG diagram - a diagram approved by the Surveyor General in terms of the Land Survey Act, denoting the boundaries of a residential or commercial property or a thrall or other land area. This might include a General Plan of a municipality or a subdivided location where several erven or partitioned portions are reflected on one diagram.

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