Usually, the structure line area (also referred to as a structure limitation area) may be utilized for outdoors parking and landscaping.

Bulk - a colloquial description of the quantum of developable flooring area that may be established on a subject residential or commercial property in terms of the arrangements of a statutory land usage scheme. (i.e. the amount of the areas of all floors of a structure 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 protection is a percentage of the land area of the subject residential or commercial property, obtained from computing such area within the confines of the external delineation of the footprint of all developing 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 two of location covered by structures).

CPD - Continued Professional Development

Density - in preparing terms, this normally refers to the occupational density which might be allowed on a subject residential or commercial property, generally revealed as a number of home systems per hectare of land. As an example, a density of 20 units per hectare on an erf measuring 1000m ² will equate into an effective 2 house systems that might be set 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 procedure contemplated in the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA), which treatment is used to obtain the authorisation of the pertinent environmental authority (either provincial or national), to perform a defined activity on a subject residential or commercial property as may be controlled in regards to the guidelines to NEMA.

FAR/FSR - Floor Area Ratio or Floor Space Ratio. A ratio typically expressed as a numerical figure (i.e. 0.5) being a factor that might be increased with the land location of a subject residential or commercial property (usually in square metres), the product of which will define the gross floor location that may be erected 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 used to a website of 1000m TWO, will equate into a developable gross floor location of 500m ².

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 defined as "gross leasable location" or "gross leasable flooring location" or "gross lettable area". In other words, the location of the building capable of being the subject of a lease arrangement in between the lessor and the lessee. This will usually omit non-leasable locations of the structure (common passages, stairwells, entrance foyers, energy rooms, etc). Usually, when GLA belongs to a land usage scheme, it is generally only relevant to the estimation of the needed number of parking bays to be provided on a subject residential or commercial property.

IDP - Integrated Development Plan as considered in, inter alia, the Local Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act 32 of 2000). This is the personnel "business plan" of the municipality suggesting how it will spend its money (and where). A spatial advancement structure shows the spatial implications of the IDP.

Line of No Access - the zoning maps which form part of a land usage plan might include a reference to a so-called "line of no gain access to", representing a line (typically along the border border 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 roadway system. Typically, such lines of no gain access to apply to provincial and national roads and higher order roadways within the community jurisdiction.

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

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

Ordinance - may describe the Town and Townships Ordinance, 1986 (Ordinance 15 of 1986), alternatively the Division of Land Ordinance, 1986 (Ordinance 20 of 1986)
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PPA - Planning Professions Act, 2002 (Act 36 of 2002).

PI - Professional Indemnity Insurance

Rezoning - a colloquial description of the procedure of attending to the modification of a land use scheme (or any of its arrangements), to change the land usage rights and development constraints applicable to the subject residential or commercial property.

ROD - a Record of Decision as contemplated in NEMA, being the composed choice handed down by an environmental authority, following an ecological impact assessment treatment (it might be favorable or negative).

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

• The National Removal of Restrictions Act, 1967 (appropriate to all provinces besides Gauteng). • Gauteng Removal of Restrictions Act, 1996 (Act 3 of 1996) (just relevant to Gauteng)
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R.O.W - this is a servitude and refers to a "access". In other words, it manages gain access to over one residential or commercial property in favour of the next residential or commercial property (similar to a personal street).

RPL - Recognition of Prior Learning. The concept of taking previous speculative knowing into account, notwithstanding that an individual may not hold a certified tertiary qualification in the pertinent 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 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 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 use scheme which holistically shows the intended development on a subject residential or commercial property, indicating the position of the proposed building structures to be erected, access provisions, the provision of parking, landscaping, the imposition of building lines, the position of servitudes and associated features. An SDP normally precedes the submission of a structure plan.

SPLUMA - Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013

Township establishment - an integrated process of transforming a residential or commercial property registered as a farm part( s) into urban land (a township or residential area) which might consist of partitioned erven/lots/stands and may consist of streets and public open areas. Simultaneously, the residential or commercial properties located within the ambit of the municipality will be paid for land usage rights (zoning) to regulate and manage making use of land as approved by the decision-making authority.

Splay - this usually describes the corner element of the intersection between 2 roadways, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the actual roadway surface, focused on working out the turning movement of automobile moving from the one road 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, power line, sewage centers, and so on) are routed and where such services are secured by reference to a yoke diagram (illustrating the location so afflicted). Typically, thrall areas may not be upon by developing structures and the information of such thralls are normally explained in a notarial deed of yoke registered in the workplace of the Registrar of Deeds.

SG diagram - a diagram approved by the Surveyor General in terms of the Land Survey Act, denoting the borders of a residential or commercial property or a bondage or other land location. This might consist of a General Plan of a township or a subdivided area where multiple erven or partitioned parts are reviewed one diagram.

Zoning Certificate - a certificate handed down by a municipality accrediting that a subject residential or commercial property on its records is subject to a specific set of land use and advancement controls (zoning arrangements). The certificate will usually verify the land use zoning category under which the subject residential or commercial property is held, with due recommendation to development constraints such as height limitations, protection limitations, flooring location constraints, parking requirements and so forth.