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Usually, the structure line area (also referred to as a structure limitation area) may be utilized for outdoors parking and landscaping.

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

Coverage - a term typically defined in a land usage 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. Simply put, the protection is a portion of the acreage of the subject residential or commercial property, derived from computing such area within the confines of the external delineation of the footprint of all building 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 ² will be 400m ² of area covered by structures).

CPD - Continued Professional Development

Density - in planning terms, this normally describes the occupational density which might be allowed on a subject residential or commercial property, usually expressed as a variety of residence systems per hectare of land. As an example, a density of 20 systems per hectare on an erf determining 1000m ² will equate into an efficient 2 dwelling 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 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 relevant environmental authority (either provincial or national), to perform a specified activity on a subject residential or commercial property as might be regulated in regards to the regulations to NEMA.

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

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

GLA - in certain land use schemes this is defined as "gross leasable location" 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 in between the lessor and the lessee. This will generally omit non-leasable areas of the structure (common passageways, stairwells, entrance foyers, utility spaces, and so on). Usually, when GLA is part of a land usage scheme, it is usually only pertinent to the calculation of the needed variety of parking bays to be on a subject residential or commercial property.

IDP - Integrated Development Plan as pondered in, inter alia, the City government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act 32 of 2000). This is the personnel "company strategy" of the municipality indicating how it will invest its cash (and where). A spatial advancement structure highlights the spatial implications of the IDP.

Line of No Access - the zoning maps which form part of a land use plan might include a referral to a so-called "line of no gain access to", representing a line (normally along the border border 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 access use to provincial and nationwide roads and greater order roadways within the municipal jurisdiction.

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

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

Ordinance - might describe the Town Planning and Townships Ordinance, 1986 (Ordinance 15 of 1986), alternatively the Division of Land Ordinance, 1986 (Ordinance 20 of 1986)
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PPA - Planning Professions Act, 2002 (Act 36 of 2002).

PI - Professional Indemnity Insurance

Rezoning - a colloquial description of the process of attending to the modification of a land usage scheme (or any of its provisions), to alter the land usage rights and advancement restrictions relevant to the subject residential or commercial property.

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

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

• The National Removal of Restrictions Act, 1967 (appropriate to all provinces besides Gauteng). • Gauteng Removal of Restrictions Act, 1996 (Act 3 of 1996) (just applicable to Gauteng)

R.O.W - this is a servitude and refers to a "access". In other words, it manages gain access to over one residential or commercial property in favour of the next residential or commercial property (similar to a private road).

RPL - Recognition of Prior Learning. The concept of taking prior speculative knowing into account, notwithstanding that a person might not hold a certified tertiary certification 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 wanted state of advancement in its location of jurisdiction), being an extension of the community IDP.

SDP - a Site Development Plan. This is a plan typically defined in a land usage scheme which holistically highlights the intended development on a subject residential or commercial property, showing the position of the proposed building structures to be put up, gain access to arrangements, the arrangement of parking, landscaping, the imposition of building lines, the position of yokes and related features. An SDP normally precedes the submission of a building plan.

SPLUMA - Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013

Township establishment - an integrated procedure of transforming a residential or commercial property registered as a farm part( s) into city land (an area or suburban area) which might include subdivided erven/lots/stands and might consist of streets and public open spaces. Simultaneously, the residential or commercial properties positioned within the ambit of the town will be managed land usage rights (zoning) to regulate and handle the usage of land as authorized by the decision-making authority.

Splay - this normally describes the corner element of the crossway between 2 roads, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the real roadway surface, intended at negotiating the turning motion of automobile moving from the one roadway to the other at such intersection.

Servitude - in preparing terms, this typically refers to a part of the subject residential or commercial property over which an engineering service (water lines, power line, sewage facilities, and so on) are routed and where such services are protected by reference to a bondage diagram (depicting the location so affected). Typically, yoke areas may not be intruded upon by developing structures and the information of such bondages are normally 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 approved by the Surveyor General in regards to the Land Survey Act, signifying the boundaries of a residential or commercial property or a yoke or other land area. This may consist of a General Plan of a town or a partitioned area where numerous erven or subdivided portions are assessed one diagram.

Zoning Certificate - a certificate bied far by a municipality certifying that a subject residential or commercial property on its records goes through a specific set of land usage and advancement controls (zoning arrangements). The certificate will usually verify the land use zoning classification under which the subject residential or commercial property is held, with due referral to development restrictions such as height constraints, coverage restrictions, flooring area limitations, parking requirements and the like.