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Usually, the building line location (likewise referred to as a building limitation location) may be utilized for outdoors parking and landscaping.
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Bulk - a colloquial description of the quantum of developable floor location that may be established on a subject residential or commercial property in terms of the provisions of a statutory land usage scheme. (i.e. the sum of the locations of all floors of a building on the subject residential or commercial property).

Coverage - a term usually specified in a land use scheme 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 portion of the acreage of the subject residential or commercial property, obtained from determining such area 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% protection on a website of 1000m two will be 400m ² of location covered by buildings).

CPD - Continued Professional Development

Density - in preparing terms, this typically refers to the occupational density which might be permitted on a subject residential or commercial property, generally revealed as a variety of dwelling systems per hectare of land. As an example, a density of 20 per hectare on an erf determining 1000m two will equate into an effective 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 regulating authority of the preparation occupation.

EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment, a treatment considered in the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA), which procedure is used to obtain the authorisation of the relevant ecological authority (either provincial or national), to perform a specified 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 usually expressed 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 item of which will define the gross flooring area that may be set up on the subject residential or commercial property in terms of a land use plan (likewise frequently referred to as "bulk or bulk element"). 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 multiple erven and streets or partitioned erven or farm portions on a single diagram (or a single set of diagrams).

GLA - in certain land usage plans this is defined as "gross leasable location" or "gross leasable flooring location" or "gross lettable area". Simply put, the area of the building efficient in being the topic of a lease contract in between the lessor and the lessee. This will usually omit non-leasable areas of the building (common passageways, stairwells, entrance foyers, energy rooms, etc). Usually, when GLA becomes part of a land use plan, it is generally just relevant 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 City government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act 32 of 2000). This is the operative "service strategy" of the town showing how it will spend its cash (and where). A spatial advancement framework shows the spatial ramifications of the IDP.

Line of No Access - the zoning maps which form part of a land usage plan may include a reference to a so-called "line of no access", representing a line (normally along the border boundary 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 gain access to apply to provincial and nationwide roads and higher order roadways within the local jurisdiction.

LUS - Land Use Scheme as specified in SPLUMA 2013 (comparable to a town 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 process of taking care of the change of a land use plan (or any of its arrangements), to change the land usage rights and development constraints relevant to the subject residential or commercial property.

ROD - a Record of Decision as pondered in NEMA, being the composed choice handed down by an environmental authority, following an ecological effect evaluation procedure (it might be positive or negative).

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

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

R.O.W - this is a thrall and describes a "right-of-way". 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 personal road).

RPL - Recognition of Prior Learning. The principle of taking prior speculative learning into account, notwithstanding that an individual might not hold a recognized tertiary qualification in the pertinent field of endeavour.

SAACPP - South African Association of Consulting Professional Planners

SACPLAN - The South African Council for Planners set up in regards to 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 generally defined in a land use plan which holistically shows the desired development on a subject residential or commercial property, indicating the position of the proposed structure structures to be set up, gain access to provisions, the provision of parking, landscaping, the imposition of structure lines, the position of thralls and associated features. An SDP normally precedes the submission of a building plan.

SPLUMA - Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013

Township facility - an integrated procedure of transforming a residential or commercial property signed up as a farm part( s) into urban land (a town or suburban area) which might include partitioned erven/lots/stands and might consist of streets and public open areas. Simultaneously, the residential or commercial properties located within the ambit of the township will be paid for land usage rights (zoning) to manage and handle the use of land as approved by the decision-making authority.

Splay - this generally refers to the corner part of the intersection in between two roadways, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the real roadway surface area, focused on negotiating the turning movement of automobile moving from the one road to the other at such intersection.

Servitude - in preparing terms, this typically describes 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 location so affected). Typically, servitude locations might not be intruded upon by constructing structures and the information of such bondages are generally explained in a notarial deed of bondage registered in the office of the Registrar of Deeds.
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SG diagram - a diagram authorized by the Surveyor General in regards to the Land Survey Act, denoting the limits of a residential or commercial property or a thrall or other acreage. This may consist of a General Plan of a township or a partitioned area where numerous erven or partitioned parts are assessed one diagram.

Zoning Certificate - a certificate bied far by a town accrediting that a subject residential or commercial property on its records is subject to a specific set of land use and development controls (zoning arrangements). The certificate will typically validate the land use zoning category under which the subject residential or commercial property is held, with due referral to development limitations such as height limitations, protection limitations, flooring location restrictions, parking requirements and the like.