Usually, the structure line location (also described as a building limitation location) may be utilized for outdoors parking and landscaping.
Bulk - a colloquial description of the quantum of developable floor location that might be developed on a subject residential or commercial property in regards to the arrangements of a statutory land usage plan. (i.e. the sum of the locations of all floorings of a structure on the subject residential or commercial property).
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Coverage - a term generally defined in a land usage 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. In other words, the coverage is a percentage of the acreage of the subject residential or commercial property, derived from computing such area within the boundaries of the outer 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 website of 1000m ² will be 400m ² of location covered by buildings).
CPD - Continued Professional Development
Density - in planning 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 residence units per hectare of land. As an example, a density of 20 systems per hectare on an erf measuring 1000m ² will equate into a reliable 2 dwelling units that may be put up on the land in question.
DALRRD - Department of Agriculture, 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 treatment is employed to procure the authorisation of the relevant environmental authority (either provincial or national), to conduct a specified activity on a subject residential or commercial property as may be controlled in regards to the regulations to NEMA.
FAR/FSR - Floor Area Ratio or Floor Space Ratio. A ratio generally expressed as a numerical figure (i.e. 0.5) being an element that might be multiplied with the acreage of a subject residential or commercial property (normally in square metres), the item of which will define the gross floor area that may be put up on the subject residential or commercial property in terms of a land usage plan (also typically referred to as "bulk or bulk factor"). As an example, the FAR of 0,5, when applied to a site of 1000m ², will equate into a developable gross floor area of 500m ².
General Plan - this is a SG Diagram reflecting several erven and streets or partitioned erven or farm portions on a single diagram (or a single set of diagrams).
GLA - in particular land use plans this is specified as "gross leasable location" or "gross leasable flooring area" or "gross lettable area". In other words, the location of the building efficient in being the topic of a lease contract between the lessor and the lessee. This will generally omit non-leasable locations of the building (communal passages, stairwells, entryway foyers, energy rooms, etc). Usually, when GLA is part of a land usage plan, it is normally only relevant to the calculation of the needed number of parking bays to be supplied 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 plan" of the municipality indicating how it will spend its money (and where). A spatial advancement structure shows the spatial ramifications of the IDP.
Line of No Access - the zoning maps which form part of a land usage plan might consist of a referral to a so-called "line of no access", signifying a line (typically along the border border of the subject residential or commercial property) along which no access might be offered to the subject residential or commercial property from the external roadway system. Typically, such lines of no gain access to use to provincial and nationwide roads and greater order roads within the municipal jurisdiction.
LUS - Land Use Scheme as defined in SPLUMA 2013 (comparable to a town preparation scheme).
NEMA - National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998)
Ordinance - might refer to 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 procedure of addressing the change of a land use plan (or any of its provisions), to alter the land use rights and development constraints suitable 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 procedure (it might be favorable or unfavorable).
RORA - Removal of Restrictions Act. There are 2 versions specifically:
• The National Removal of Restrictions Act, 1967 (relevant to all provinces besides Gauteng).
• Gauteng Removal of Restrictions Act, 1996 (Act 3 of 1996) (only appropriate to Gauteng)
R.O.W - this is a servitude and describes a "right-of-way". In other words, it controls gain access to over one residential or commercial property in favour of the next residential or commercial property (comparable to a personal street).
RPL - Recognition of Prior Learning. The concept of taking previous experimental knowing into account, regardless of that an individual might not hold a certified 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 contemplated in SPLUMA, 2013 and the Local 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 Website Development Plan. This is a plan normally specified in a land usage scheme which holistically highlights the designated advancement on a subject residential or commercial property, showing the position of the proposed structure structures to be set up, access provisions, the arrangement of parking, landscaping, the imposition of building lines, the position of servitudes and related functions. An SDP generally precedes the submission of a structure plan.
SPLUMA - Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013
Township facility - an incorporated process of converting a residential or commercial property registered as a farm portion( s) into metropolitan land (a town or residential area) which might consist of partitioned erven/lots/stands and may consist of streets and public open spaces. Simultaneously, the residential or commercial properties located within the ambit of the municipality will be managed land use rights (zoning) to control and handle using land as authorized by the decision-making authority.
Splay - this typically refers to the corner element of the intersection in between two roads, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the actual road surface, targeted at working out the turning movement of motor cars moving from the one road to the other at such crossway.
Servitude - in planning terms, this generally describes a part of the subject residential or commercial property over which an engineering service (water lines, power line, sewage centers, etc) are routed and where such services are secured by recommendation to a yoke diagram (depicting the area so afflicted). Typically, yoke locations might not be trespassed upon by constructing structures and the information of such bondages are typically explained in a notarial deed of servitude registered in the workplace of the Registrar of Deeds.
SG diagram - a diagram approved by the Surveyor General in terms of the Land Survey Act, representing the boundaries of a residential or commercial property or a servitude or other land location. This might include a General Plan of a town or a partitioned location where several erven or partitioned portions are assessed one diagram.
Zoning Certificate - a certificate bied far by a municipality accrediting that a subject residential or commercial property on its records undergoes a particular set of land use and advancement controls (zoning arrangements). The certificate will usually validate the land usage zoning classification under which the subject residential or commercial property is held, with due recommendation to advancement constraints such as height constraints, protection limitations, flooring area restrictions, parking requirements and the like.
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