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Usually, the building line area (also described as a structure limitation area) may be used for outdoors parking and landscaping.

Bulk - a colloquial description of the quantum of developable flooring location that may be established on a subject residential or commercial property in terms of the arrangements of a statutory land use plan. (i.e. the sum of the areas of all floors of a structure on the subject residential or commercial property).

Coverage - a term generally 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. In other words, the coverage is a percentage of the land area of the subject residential or commercial property, originated from calculating such location 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 site of 1000m ² will be 400m ² of area covered by buildings).

CPD - Continued Professional Development

Density - in preparing terms, this generally describes the occupational density which may be allowed on a subject residential or commercial property, normally revealed as a number of house systems per hectare of land. As an example, a density of 20 systems per hectare on an erf determining 1000m two will equate into a reliable 2 residence units that might be set 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 preparation occupation.

EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment, a treatment pondered in the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA), which procedure is used to acquire the authorisation of the appropriate ecological authority (either provincial or national), to conduct a defined activity on a subject residential or commercial property as might be controlled in terms of the guidelines to NEMA.

FAR/FSR - Floor Area Ratio or Floor Space Ratio. A ratio typically revealed as a numerical figure (i.e. 0.5) being an aspect that might be multiplied with the acreage of a subject residential or commercial property (normally in square metres), the product of which will define the gross flooring location that may be erected on the subject residential or commercial property in regards to a land usage scheme (likewise commonly described as "bulk or bulk factor"). As an example, the FAR of 0,5, when used to a website of 1000m ², will translate into a developable gross floor location of 500m TWO.

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

GLA - in specific land use plans this is specified as "gross leasable area" or "gross leasable floor location" or "gross lettable location". In other words, the location of the building efficient in being the topic of a lease contract between the lessor and the lessee. This will typically leave out non-leasable areas of the building (common passages, stairwells, entryway foyers, utility spaces, and so on). Usually, when GLA is part of a land usage plan, it is generally only appropriate to the computation of the required variety of parking bays to be provided on a subject residential or commercial property.

IDP - Integrated Development Plan as contemplated in, inter alia, the City government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act 32 of 2000). This is the operative "company strategy" of the town indicating how it will spend its money (and where). A spatial advancement framework highlights the spatial implications of the IDP.

Line of No Access - the zoning maps which form part of a land usage plan might consist of a recommendation to a so-called "line of no access", representing a line (normally along the perimeter limit of the subject residential or commercial property) along which no access may be offered to the subject residential or commercial property from the external roadway system. Typically, such lines of no access apply to provincial and national roadways and greater order roadways within the local 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 - may 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 procedure of taking care of the modification of a land use scheme (or any of its arrangements), to alter the land use rights and development constraints appropriate to the subject residential or commercial property.

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

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

• The National Removal of Restrictions Act, 1967 (suitable to all provinces other than Gauteng). • Gauteng Removal of Restrictions Act, 1996 (Act 3 of 1996) (just relevant to Gauteng)

R.O.W - this is a thrall and describes a "right of method". To put it simply, it controls gain access to over one residential or commercial property in favour of the next residential or commercial property (similar to a private street).

RPL - Recognition of Prior Learning. The concept of taking previous speculative knowing into account, regardless of that an individual may 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 regards to 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 municipality (its future preferred state of advancement in its area of jurisdiction), being an extension of the municipal IDP.

SDP - a Website Development Plan. This is a strategy typically defined in a land use plan which holistically highlights the intended development on a subject residential or commercial property, the position of the proposed building structures to be erected, gain access to arrangements, the arrangement of parking, landscaping, the imposition of building lines, the position of bondages and related functions. An SDP generally 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 registered as a farm part( s) into metropolitan land (an area or residential area) which might consist of partitioned erven/lots/stands and may include streets and public open spaces. Simultaneously, the residential or commercial properties located within the ambit of the town will be managed land usage rights (zoning) to manage and manage using land as authorized by the decision-making authority.

Splay - this usually refers to the corner part of the intersection in between two roads, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the actual road surface, targeted at working out the turning movement of automobile moving from the one roadway to the other at such intersection.

Servitude - in preparing terms, this normally refers to a part of the subject residential or commercial property over which an engineering service (water lines, electricity cable televisions, sewage facilities, etc) are routed and where such services are protected by reference to a servitude diagram (portraying the location so afflicted). Typically, thrall areas might not be intruded upon by developing structures and the information of such thralls are usually described in a notarial deed of yoke signed up in the workplace 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, representing the borders of a residential or commercial property or a servitude or other land location. This might consist of a General Plan of a town or a subdivided area where several erven or partitioned portions are assessed one diagram.

Zoning Certificate - a certificate handed down by a town accrediting 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 verify the land use zoning classification under which the subject residential or commercial property is held, with due recommendation to development constraints such as height constraints, protection limitations, floor area limitations, parking requirements and so on.