Usually, the structure line location (also referred to as a structure constraint location) might be used for outdoors parking and landscaping.

Bulk - a colloquial description of the quantum of developable flooring location that might be developed on a subject residential or commercial property in terms of the provisions of a statutory land use plan. (i.e. the amount of the areas of all floorings of a structure on the subject residential or commercial property).

Coverage - a term usually defined 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 coverage is a portion of the acreage of the subject residential or commercial property, stemmed from computing such location within the confines of the external delineation of the footprint of all developing structures on the subject residential or commercial property seen from directly above the subject residential or commercial property (i.e. a 40% coverage on a website of 1000m ² will be 400m ² of area covered by structures).

CPD - Continued Professional Development

Density - in planning terms, this generally describes the occupational density which might be permitted on a subject residential or commercial property, generally revealed as a variety of dwelling units per hectare of land. As an example, a density of 20 systems per hectare on an erf determining 1000m ² will translate into an effective 2 home units that may 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 managing authority of the planning profession.

EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment, a treatment considered in the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA), which treatment is employed to procure the authorisation of the relevant environmental 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 usually expressed as a numerical figure (i.e. 0.5) being a factor 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 set up on the subject residential or commercial property in terms of a land usage scheme (also frequently described as "bulk or bulk element"). As an example, the FAR of 0,5, when used to a site of 1000m TWO, will translate into a developable gross flooring location of 500m ².

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

GLA - in specific land usage plans this is specified as "gross leasable area" or "gross leasable flooring area" or "gross lettable location". To put it simply, the area of the building efficient in being the topic of a lease arrangement between the lessor and the lessee. This will typically leave out non-leasable areas of the building (common passages, stairwells, entrance foyers, energy spaces, and so on). Usually, when GLA belongs to a land usage plan, it is normally only pertinent to the calculation 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 City government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act 32 of 2000). This is the operative "service plan" of the municipality indicating how it will invest its money (and where). A spatial development structure illustrates the spatial implications of the IDP.

Line of No Access - the zoning maps which form part of a land usage scheme may include a recommendation to a so-called "line of no gain access to", denoting a line (normally along the border border of the subject residential or commercial property) along which no access might be supplied to the subject residential or commercial property from the external roadway system. Typically, such lines of no access apply to provincial and nationwide roads and greater order roadways within the local jurisdiction.

LUS - Land Use Scheme as specified in SPLUMA 2013 (comparable to a town scheme).

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 addressing the change of a land use plan (or any of its arrangements), to change the land usage rights and advancement limitations appropriate to the subject residential or commercial property.

ROD - a Record of Decision as pondered in NEMA, being the written choice handed down by an ecological authority, following an ecological effect assessment treatment (it might be positive or unfavorable).

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

• 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 suitable to Gauteng)

R.O.W - this is a thrall and describes a "right of method". In other words, it regulates gain access to over one residential or commercial property in favour of the next residential or commercial property (similar to a personal roadway).

RPL - Recognition of Prior Learning. The principle of taking prior experimental learning into account, notwithstanding that a person might not hold a certified tertiary certification 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 pondered 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 advancement in its location of jurisdiction), being an extension of the community IDP.

SDP - a Website Development Plan. This is a strategy usually specified in a land usage scheme which holistically illustrates the desired development on a subject residential or commercial property, suggesting the position of the proposed building structures to be set up, gain access to provisions, the provision of parking, landscaping, the imposition of structure lines, the position of yokes and related features. An SDP usually precedes the submission of a structure strategy.

SPLUMA - Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013

Township facility - an integrated process of converting a residential or commercial property registered as a farm portion( s) into urban land (a township or residential area) which might include subdivided erven/lots/stands and might include streets and public open areas. Simultaneously, the residential or commercial properties situated within the ambit of the town will be paid for land use rights (zoning) to regulate and manage using land as approved by the decision-making authority.

Splay - this typically describes the corner part of the crossway between 2 roadways, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the real roadway surface area, targeted at working out the turning movement of motor automobiles moving from the one road to the other at such crossway.

Servitude - in preparing terms, this usually 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 referral to a yoke diagram (illustrating the area so affected). Typically, servitude locations may not be intruded upon by developing structures and the details of such thralls are generally explained in a notarial deed of yoke signed up in the workplace of the Registrar of Deeds.

SG diagram - a diagram authorized by the Surveyor General in regards to the Land Survey Act, denoting the borders of a residential or commercial property or a yoke or other land area. This might include a General Plan of a municipality or a partitioned location where multiple erven or subdivided parts are assessed one diagram.

Zoning Certificate - a certificate handed down by a town certifying that a subject residential or commercial property on its records goes through a particular set of land usage and development controls (zoning provisions). The certificate will usually confirm the land use zoning category under which the subject residential or commercial property is held, with due referral to development restrictions such as height constraints, protection restrictions, flooring area limitations, parking requirements and the like.