Usually, the building line area (also referred to as a building constraint area) may 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 scheme. (i.e. the sum of the areas of all floorings of a structure on the subject residential or commercial property).
Coverage - a term usually defined in a land use scheme which explains the footprint of a building structure on a subject residential or commercial property, seen from straight above the subject residential or commercial property. To put it simply, the protection is a portion of the acreage of the subject residential or commercial property, originated from determining 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 straight above the subject residential or commercial property (i.e. a 40% coverage on a website of 1000m ² will be 400m ² of location covered by structures).
CPD - Continued Professional Development
Density - in planning terms, this usually describes the occupational density which may be allowed on a subject residential or commercial property, typically revealed as a variety of house systems per hectare of land. As an example, a density of 20 systems per hectare on an erf measuring 1000m ² will equate into a 2 home units 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 regulating authority of the planning profession.
EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment, a treatment contemplated in the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA), which treatment is utilized to obtain the authorisation of the appropriate environmental authority (either provincial or nationwide), to carry out a defined activity on a subject residential or commercial property as might be regulated in regards to the guidelines to NEMA.
FAR/FSR - Floor Area Ratio or Floor Space Ratio. A ratio typically expressed as a numerical figure (i.e. 0.5) being an aspect that might be increased with the land area of a subject residential or commercial property (generally in square metres), the product of which will define the gross flooring area that might be put up on the subject residential or commercial property in regards to a land usage plan (also frequently described as "bulk or bulk aspect"). As an example, the FAR of 0,5, when applied to a website of 1000m ², will translate into a developable gross floor area of 500m ².
General Plan - this is a SG Diagram reflecting multiple 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 specified as "gross leasable location" or "gross leasable floor area" or "gross lettable area". To put it simply, the area of the structure efficient in being the subject of a lease agreement between the lessor and the lessee. This will typically exclude non-leasable locations of the structure (common passageways, stairwells, entrance foyers, utility spaces, and so on). Usually, when GLA becomes part of a land use plan, it is usually only appropriate to the computation of the required number of parking bays to be supplied 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 personnel "business strategy" of the town indicating how it will invest its cash (and where). A spatial development framework highlights 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 access", representing a line (typically along the border limit of the subject residential or commercial property) along which no access may be supplied 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 roads within the municipal jurisdiction.
LUS - Land Use Scheme as specified 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 process of taking care of the modification of a land usage 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 considered in NEMA, being the written choice bied far by an ecological authority, following an ecological effect evaluation procedure (it may be positive or unfavorable).
RORA - Removal of Restrictions Act. There are 2 versions specifically:
• The National Removal of Restrictions Act, 1967 (appropriate to all provinces other than Gauteng).
• Gauteng Removal of Restrictions Act, 1996 (Act 3 of 1996) (just applicable to Gauteng)
R.O.W - this is a bondage and describes a "right of method". 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 roadway).
RPL - Recognition of Prior Learning. The principle of taking previous speculative knowing into account, regardless of that an individual may not hold a certified tertiary qualification in the appropriate 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 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 preferred state of advancement in its location of jurisdiction), being an extension of the local IDP.
SDP - a Site Development Plan. This is a strategy generally specified in a land use plan which holistically illustrates the intended development on a subject residential or commercial property, suggesting the position of the proposed structure structures to be set up, access arrangements, the arrangement of parking, landscaping, the imposition of structure lines, the position of bondages and related functions. An SDP usually precedes the submission of a building strategy.
SPLUMA - Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013
Township establishment - an integrated procedure of converting a residential or commercial property registered as a farm part( s) into urban land (a township or suburban area) which might consist of partitioned erven/lots/stands and might consist of streets and public open spaces. Simultaneously, the residential or commercial properties positioned within the ambit of the municipality will be managed land use rights (zoning) to manage and handle making use of land as approved by the decision-making authority.
Splay - this generally refers to the corner part of the crossway between two roads, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the actual road surface, intended at working out the turning movement of automobile moving from the one roadway to the other at such intersection.
Servitude - in preparing terms, this generally describes a part of the subject residential or commercial property over which an engineering service (water lines, power line, sewage centers, and so on) are routed and where such services are protected by referral to a bondage diagram (illustrating the area so affected). Typically, servitude locations may not be intruded upon by building structures and the details of such bondages are typically described in a notarial deed of bondage registered in the workplace of the Registrar of Deeds.
SG diagram - a diagram approved by the Surveyor General in regards to the Land Survey Act, representing the limits of a residential or commercial property or a thrall or other land location. This might consist of a General Plan of a township or a partitioned location where multiple erven or subdivided parts are shown on one diagram.
Zoning Certificate - a certificate bied far by a municipality licensing that a subject residential or commercial property on its records goes through a particular set of land usage and development controls (zoning arrangements). The certificate will generally validate the land usage zoning category under which the subject residential or commercial property is held, with due referral to development limitations such as height limitations, coverage limitations, flooring location restrictions, parking requirements and the like.
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RORA Removal Of Restrictions Act
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