Usually, the structure line location (also explained as a building constraint area) may be used for open air parking and landscaping.

Bulk - a colloquial description of the quantum of developable floor area that may be developed on a subject residential or commercial property in terms of the arrangements of a statutory land usage plan. (i.e. the sum of the locations of all floorings of a building on the subject residential or commercial property).

Coverage - a term normally defined 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. Simply put, the protection is a percentage of the acreage of the subject residential or commercial property, stemmed from determining such location within the boundaries of the external delineation of the footprint of all constructing 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 area covered by buildings).

CPD - Continued Professional Development

Density - in preparing terms, this typically refers to the occupational density which might be permitted on a subject residential or commercial property, normally revealed as a number of house units per hectare of land. As an example, a density of 20 units per hectare on an erf measuring 1000m ² will equate into an efficient 2 house units 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 Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA), which procedure is utilized to obtain the authorisation of the relevant ecological authority (either provincial or national), to perform a specified activity on a subject residential or commercial property as might be managed in terms of the regulations to NEMA.

FAR/FSR - Floor Area Ratio or Floor Space Ratio. A ratio normally expressed as a numerical figure (i.e. 0.5) being an aspect that might be multiplied with the land area of a subject residential or commercial property (generally in square metres), the product of which will define the gross flooring area that may be put up on the subject residential or commercial property in terms of a land usage scheme (likewise commonly described as "bulk or bulk aspect"). As an example, the FAR of 0,5, when applied to a site of 1000m ², will translate into a developable gross floor area of 500m ².

General Plan - this is a SG Diagram showing numerous 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 subject of a lease arrangement between the lessor and the lessee. This will usually exclude non-leasable locations of the building (communal passages, stairwells, entryway foyers, energy spaces, and so on). Usually, when GLA becomes part of a land usage plan, it is normally only appropriate to the estimation of the required number 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 "organization plan" of the municipality suggesting how it will spend its cash (and where). A spatial development framework highlights the spatial ramifications of the IDP.

Line of No Access - the zoning maps which form part of a land usage scheme may include a reference to a so-called "line of no access", signifying a line (generally along the perimeter border 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 road system. Typically, such lines of no access use to provincial and nationwide roads and greater 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 - might 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 taking care of the modification of a land use scheme (or any of its provisions), to change the land use rights and development constraints 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 impact assessment treatment (it might be positive or negative).

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

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

R.O.W - this is a servitude and describes a "access". In other words, it controls access over one residential or commercial property in favour of the next residential or commercial property (comparable to a private highway).

RPL - Recognition of Prior Learning. The principle of taking prior speculative learning into account, regardless of that an individual might not hold an accredited tertiary credentials in the appropriate 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
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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 municipality (its future wanted state of advancement in its location of jurisdiction), being an extension of the community IDP.

SDP - a Site Development Plan. This is a strategy generally specified in a land usage plan which holistically shows the intended advancement 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 yokes and associated functions. An SDP generally precedes the submission of a structure strategy.
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SPLUMA - Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013

Township facility - an incorporated procedure of converting a residential or commercial property registered as a farm part( s) into city land (a township or residential area) which may consist of subdivided erven/lots/stands and may include streets and public open spaces. Simultaneously, the residential or commercial properties positioned within the ambit of the township will be managed land use rights (zoning) to regulate and handle making use of land as authorized by the decision-making authority.

Splay - this typically describes the corner element of the crossway in between two roadways, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the actual road surface area, focused on negotiating the turning movement of automobile moving from the one roadway to the other at such intersection.

Servitude - in planning terms, this typically describes a part of the subject residential or commercial property over which an engineering service (water lines, electrical power cable televisions, sewage centers, and so on) are routed and where such services are safeguarded by recommendation to a servitude diagram (portraying the area so afflicted). Typically, yoke areas might not be trespassed upon by developing structures and the details of such yokes are normally explained in a notarial deed of yoke 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, signifying the borders of a residential or commercial property or a thrall or other acreage. This may include a General Plan of a township or a partitioned area where numerous erven or subdivided parts are assessed one diagram.

Zoning Certificate - a certificate bied far by a municipality licensing that a subject residential or commercial property on its records undergoes a specific set of land usage and advancement controls (zoning arrangements). The certificate will generally verify 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, protection limitations, flooring location restrictions, parking requirements and so forth.