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Usually, the building line area (likewise described as a structure constraint area) might be used for open air parking and landscaping.

Bulk - a colloquial description of the quantum of developable flooring 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 sum of the locations of all floors of a building on the subject residential or commercial property).
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Coverage - a term normally defined in a land use scheme 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. In other words, the coverage is a percentage of the acreage of the subject residential or commercial property, derived from calculating such area within the boundaries of the outer 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 website of 1000m ² will be 400m ² of location covered by structures).

CPD - Continued Professional Development

Density - in planning terms, this generally describes the occupational density which may be allowed on a subject residential or commercial property, typically expressed as a variety of residence units per hectare of land. As an example, a density of 20 units per hectare on an erf measuring 1000m ² will equate into a reliable 2 residence systems 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 planning profession.

EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment, a procedure pondered in the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA), which treatment is used to procure the authorisation of the appropriate environmental authority (either provincial or national), to conduct a defined activity on a subject residential or commercial property as may be managed in regards to the policies to NEMA.

FAR/FSR - Floor Area Ratio or Floor Space Ratio. A ratio usually expressed as a numerical figure (i.e. 0.5) being an aspect that may be multiplied with the acreage of a subject residential or commercial property (generally 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 regards to a land usage scheme (likewise frequently described as "bulk or bulk element"). As an example, the FAR of 0,5, when used to a website of 1000m TWO, will translate into a developable gross floor location of 500m ².

General Plan - this is a SG Diagram showing numerous erven and streets or subdivided erven or farm parts on a single diagram (or a single set of diagrams).

GLA - in particular land use plans this is specified as "gross leasable area" or "gross leasable floor location" or "gross lettable area". To put it simply, the area of the structure capable of being the topic of a lease agreement between the lessor and the lessee. This will generally omit non-leasable areas of the structure (common passages, stairwells, entrance foyers, energy spaces, and so on). Usually, when GLA becomes part of a land use plan, it is usually only relevant to the calculation of the required variety of parking bays to be supplied on a subject residential or commercial property.

IDP - Integrated Development Plan as pondered in, inter alia, the Local Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act 32 of 2000). This is the operative "service strategy" of the town showing how it will spend its cash (and where). A spatial advancement framework illustrates the spatial ramifications of the IDP.

Line of No Access - the zoning maps which form part of a land usage scheme may consist of a recommendation to a so-called "line of no access", representing a line (usually along the border 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 roadway system. Typically, such lines of no gain access to use to provincial and national roadways and greater order roads within the .

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 refer to the Town 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 attending to the amendment of a land use scheme (or any of its arrangements), to change the land use rights and advancement limitations applicable to the subject residential or commercial property.

ROD - a Record of Decision as contemplated in NEMA, being the composed choice bied far by an environmental authority, following an environmental impact assessment procedure (it might be favorable or unfavorable).

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

• The National Removal of Restrictions Act, 1967 (appropriate 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 servitude and refers to a "access". To put it simply, it manages access over one residential or commercial property in favour of the next residential or commercial property (similar to a private roadway).

RPL - Recognition of Prior Learning. The principle of taking prior experimental knowing into account, notwithstanding that a person may not hold an accredited tertiary certification in the pertinent 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 wanted state of advancement in its location of jurisdiction), being an extension of the municipal IDP.

SDP - a Website Development Plan. This is a plan typically specified in a land usage plan which holistically highlights the intended development on a subject residential or commercial property, indicating the position of the proposed structure structures to be put up, gain access to arrangements, the provision of parking, landscaping, the imposition of building lines, the position of bondages and associated features. An SDP typically precedes the submission of a building plan.

SPLUMA - Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013

Township establishment - an incorporated process of transforming a residential or commercial property signed up as a farm portion( s) into city land (a town or suburban area) which might consist of partitioned erven/lots/stands and might include streets and public open areas. Simultaneously, the residential or commercial properties positioned within the ambit of the area will be afforded land usage rights (zoning) to regulate and manage making use of land as authorized by the decision-making authority.

Splay - this normally refers to the corner element of the crossway between 2 roads, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the real roadway surface area, targeted at working out the turning movement of motor vehicles moving from the one road to the other at such intersection.

Servitude - in preparing terms, this generally describes a part of the subject residential or commercial property over which an engineering service (water lines, electrical energy cable televisions, sewage facilities, etc) are routed and where such services are secured by referral to a servitude diagram (illustrating the area so afflicted). Typically, yoke locations may not be encroached upon by constructing structures and the information of such thralls are normally described in a notarial deed of bondage signed up in the office of the Registrar of Deeds.
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SG diagram - a diagram authorized by the Surveyor General in terms of the Land Survey Act, signifying the boundaries of a residential or commercial property or a yoke or other acreage. This might include a General Plan of a town or a partitioned location where numerous erven or subdivided portions are shown on one diagram.

Zoning Certificate - a certificate bied far by a municipality certifying that a subject residential or commercial property on its records is subject to a specific set of land usage and advancement controls (zoning arrangements). The certificate will normally validate the land usage zoning category under which the subject residential or commercial property is held, with due recommendation to advancement limitations such as height limitations, protection restrictions, floor location limitations, parking requirements and so forth.