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Usually, the building line area (also referred to as a structure constraint location) may be used for outdoors 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 arrangements of a statutory land use scheme. (i.e. the sum of the locations of all floorings of a building on the subject residential or commercial property).

Coverage - a term usually 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. Simply put, the coverage is a percentage of the acreage of the subject residential or commercial property, stemmed from determining 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 directly above the subject residential or commercial property (i.e. a 40% protection on a site of 1000m two will be 400m two of area covered by structures).

CPD - Continued Professional Development

Density - in preparing terms, this usually refers to the occupational density which might be permitted on a subject residential or commercial property, usually expressed as a number of home units per hectare of land. As an example, a density of 20 units per hectare on an erf determining 1000m ² will translate into an effective 2 house systems that may be put up 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 controling authority of the planning occupation.

EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment, a treatment pondered in the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA), which treatment is used to procure the authorisation of the appropriate ecological authority (either provincial or nationwide), to perform a defined activity on a subject residential or commercial property as may be regulated in terms of the regulations to NEMA.

FAR/FSR - Floor Area Ratio or Floor Space Ratio. A ratio generally revealed as a numerical figure (i.e. 0.5) being an aspect that might be increased with the land location of a subject residential or commercial property (normally in square metres), the product of which will specify the gross floor area that might be erected on the subject residential or commercial property in terms of a land usage scheme (also frequently described as "bulk or bulk factor"). 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 showing numerous erven and streets or partitioned erven or farm parts on a single diagram (or a single set of diagrams).

GLA - in specific land usage plans this is defined as "gross leasable area" or "gross leasable flooring location" or "gross lettable area". In other words, the area of the building capable of being the topic of a lease agreement between the lessor and the lessee. This will normally exclude non-leasable locations of the building (common passageways, stairwells, entrance foyers, utility spaces, etc). Usually, when GLA is part of a land use plan, it is generally only pertinent to the computation of the required 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 operative "service strategy" of the town showing how it will invest its money (and where). A spatial development framework illustrates the spatial implications of the IDP.

Line of No Access - the zoning maps which form part of a land use plan might consist of a recommendation to a so-called "line of no gain access to", denoting a line (usually along the border limit 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 gain access to apply to provincial and national roads and higher order roadways within the municipal jurisdiction.

LUS - Land Use Scheme as specified in SPLUMA 2013 (comparable 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)

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 usage scheme (or any of its provisions), to alter the land usage rights and development constraints appropriate to the subject residential or commercial property.

ROD - a Record of Decision as considered in NEMA, being the composed choice bied far by an environmental authority, following an ecological effect evaluation treatment (it might be favorable or negative).

RORA - Removal of Restrictions Act. There are 2 versions namely:
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• The National Removal of Restrictions Act, 1967 (applicable to all provinces other than Gauteng). • Gauteng Removal of Restrictions Act, 1996 (Act 3 of 1996) (only relevant to Gauteng)

R.O.W - this is a servitude and describes a "access". To put it simply, it regulates 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 previous speculative learning into account, regardless of that an individual might not hold an accredited tertiary qualification in the appropriate 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 considered 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 preferred state of development in its location of jurisdiction), being an extension of the community IDP.

SDP - a Website Development Plan. This is a strategy generally specified in a land use plan which holistically shows the designated advancement on a subject residential or commercial property, showing the position of the proposed building structures to be put up, access provisions, the arrangement of parking, landscaping, the imposition of building lines, the position of servitudes and related features. An SDP normally precedes the submission of a structure plan.

SPLUMA - Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013

Township facility - an integrated process of transforming a residential or commercial property registered as a farm portion( s) into city land (a township or residential area) which may include partitioned erven/lots/stands and may consist of streets and public open spaces. Simultaneously, the residential or commercial properties located within the ambit of the township will be paid for land use rights (zoning) to control and manage using land as approved by the decision-making authority.

Splay - this normally describes the corner element of the crossway between 2 roadways, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the actual road surface area, aimed at working out the turning motion of automobile moving from the one road to the other at such intersection.

Servitude - in planning terms, this normally refers to a part of the subject residential or commercial property over which an engineering service (water lines, power line, sewage facilities, etc) are routed and where such services are secured by recommendation to a bondage diagram (portraying the area so affected). Typically, servitude locations might not be intruded upon by developing structures and the details of such are generally 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 terms of the Land Survey Act, denoting the boundaries of a residential or commercial property or a servitude or other acreage. This may include a General Plan of a township or a subdivided location where multiple erven or subdivided parts are shown on one diagram.

Zoning Certificate - a certificate handed down by a municipality licensing that a subject residential or commercial property on its records is subject to a specific set of land usage and development controls (zoning provisions). The certificate will normally validate the land usage zoning classification under which the subject residential or commercial property is held, with due reference to development limitations such as height constraints, coverage constraints, flooring area constraints, parking requirements and so forth.