Usually, the structure line area (also explained as a structure limitation area) may be used for open air parking and landscaping.
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Bulk - a colloquial description of the quantum of developable flooring location that might be established on a subject residential or commercial property in regards to the arrangements of a statutory land usage plan. (i.e. the amount of the areas of all floors of a structure on the subject residential or commercial property).

Coverage - a term normally specified in a land usage plan which describes the footprint of a building structure on a subject residential or commercial property, seen from directly above the subject residential or commercial property. Simply put, the coverage is a percentage of the land location of the subject residential or commercial property, originated from determining such location within the boundaries 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 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, usually revealed as a variety of dwelling units per hectare of land. As an example, a density of 20 units per hectare on an erf determining 1000m ² will equate into an effective 2 dwelling systems that may be put 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 procedure is utilized to acquire the authorisation of the pertinent environmental authority (either provincial or national), to perform a defined activity on a subject residential or commercial property as might be regulated in terms of the policies to NEMA.

FAR/FSR - Floor Area Ratio or Floor Space Ratio. A ratio normally expressed as a numerical figure (i.e. 0.5) being a factor that may be increased with the land location of a subject residential or commercial property (usually in square metres), the item of which will specify the gross flooring area that might be set up on the subject residential or commercial property in terms of a land usage scheme (likewise frequently described as "bulk or bulk factor"). As an example, the FAR of 0,5, when used to a website of 1000m ², will equate into a developable gross floor location of 500m TWO.

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 certain land usage schemes this is defined as "gross leasable area" or "gross leasable flooring location" or "gross lettable area". To put it simply, the area of the structure efficient in being the topic of a lease contract between the lessor and the lessee. This will normally leave out non-leasable areas of the structure (common passageways, stairwells, entrance foyers, energy rooms, and so on). Usually, when GLA is part of a land usage plan, it is normally just appropriate to the estimation of the needed number of parking bays to be offered on a subject residential or commercial property.

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

Line of No Access - the zoning maps which form part of a land use plan might consist of a referral to a so-called "line of no gain access to", representing a line (normally along the border boundary of the subject residential or commercial property) along which no access may be supplied to the subject residential or commercial property from the external road system. Typically, such lines of no access use to and national roadways and higher order roads within the municipal jurisdiction.

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

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

Ordinance - may describe the Town and Townships Ordinance, 1986 (Ordinance 15 of 1986), additionally 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 usage plan (or any of its arrangements), to alter the land use rights and development restrictions appropriate to the subject residential or commercial property.

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

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

• The National Removal of Restrictions Act, 1967 (suitable to all provinces aside from Gauteng). • Gauteng Removal of Restrictions Act, 1996 (Act 3 of 1996) (only appropriate to Gauteng)

R.O.W - this is a yoke and refers to a "access". To put it simply, it controls access over one residential or commercial property in favour of the next residential or commercial property (similar to a personal highway).

RPL - Recognition of Prior Learning. The concept of taking prior experimental learning into account, notwithstanding that an individual may not hold an accredited 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 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 wanted state of advancement in its location of jurisdiction), being an extension of the municipal IDP.

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

SPLUMA - Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013

Township facility - an incorporated process of transforming a residential or commercial property registered as a farm portion( s) into metropolitan land (a town or suburban area) which might consist of subdivided 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 use rights (zoning) to control and manage the usage of land as approved by the decision-making authority.

Splay - this normally describes the corner part of the intersection between two roadways, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the actual roadway surface, intended at negotiating the turning motion of automobile moving from the one roadway to the other at such crossway.

Servitude - in planning terms, this normally refers to a part of the subject residential or commercial property over which an engineering service (water lines, electrical energy cables, sewage facilities, and so on) are routed and where such services are safeguarded by recommendation to a bondage diagram (portraying the location so afflicted). Typically, bondage locations might not be intruded upon by constructing structures and the details of such bondages are normally described in a notarial deed of bondage signed up in the office of the Registrar of Deeds.

SG diagram - a diagram authorized by the Surveyor General in regards to the Land Survey Act, denoting the boundaries of a residential or commercial property or a thrall or other land area. This might consist of a General Plan of an area or a subdivided location where multiple erven or partitioned parts are assessed 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 generally validate the land usage zoning classification under which the subject residential or commercial property is held, with due referral to advancement limitations such as height constraints, coverage restrictions, flooring location restrictions, parking requirements and the like.