Usually, the building line area (also referred to as a building limitation location) may be used for open air parking and landscaping.
Bulk - a colloquial description of the quantum of developable flooring location that may be established on a subject residential or commercial property in terms of the arrangements of a statutory land use plan. (i.e. the sum of the locations of all floors of a structure on the subject residential or commercial property).
Coverage - a term generally specified in a land use plan 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 coverage is a percentage of the acreage of the subject residential or commercial property, stemmed 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 site of 1000m two will be 400m two of area covered by structures).
CPD - Continued Professional Development
Density - in planning terms, this normally describes the occupational density which may be permitted on a subject residential or commercial property, typically revealed as a number of dwelling systems per hectare of land. As an example, a density of 20 systems per hectare on an erf determining 1000m two will translate into an effective 2 home units that might 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 controling authority of the planning occupation.
EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment, a procedure considered in the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA), which procedure is utilized to procure the authorisation of the appropriate ecological authority (either provincial or nationwide), to carry out a specified activity on a subject residential or commercial property as might be regulated in terms of the regulations to NEMA.
FAR/FSR - Floor Area Ratio or Floor Space Ratio. A ratio normally as a numeric figure (i.e. 0.5) being an aspect that may be multiplied with the land area of a subject residential or commercial property (generally in square metres), the item of which will define the gross floor area that might be erected on the subject residential or commercial property in regards to a land usage scheme (likewise frequently referred to as "bulk or bulk aspect"). As an example, the FAR of 0,5, when used to a website of 1000m ², will translate 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 location" or "gross leasable flooring area" or "gross lettable area". Simply put, the location of the structure efficient in being the topic of a lease arrangement between the lessor and the lessee. This will normally leave out non-leasable locations of the building (common passageways, stairwells, entryway foyers, utility rooms, and so on). Usually, when GLA is part of a land usage scheme, it is typically just pertinent to the computation of the needed variety of parking bays to be supplied 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 operative "service strategy" of the municipality suggesting how it will spend its cash (and where). A spatial development framework illustrates the spatial implications of the IDP.
Line of No Access - the zoning maps which form part of a land usage scheme may consist of a referral to a so-called "line of no gain access to", denoting a line (normally along the border limit of the subject residential or commercial property) along which no access might be supplied to the subject residential or commercial property from the external road system. Typically, such lines of no gain access to apply to provincial and nationwide roadways and higher order roadways within the local jurisdiction.
LUS - Land Use Scheme as defined in SPLUMA 2013 (comparable to a town planning plan).
NEMA - National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998)
Ordinance - may refer to the Town Planning 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 procedure of attending to the change of a land use scheme (or any of its provisions), to change the land use rights and advancement constraints appropriate to the subject residential or commercial property.
ROD - a Record of Decision as contemplated in NEMA, being the composed decision bied far by an ecological authority, following an ecological impact evaluation treatment (it might be positive or negative).
RORA - Removal of Restrictions Act. There are 2 variations specifically:
• The National Removal of Restrictions Act, 1967 (relevant to all provinces other than Gauteng).
• Gauteng Removal of Restrictions Act, 1996 (Act 3 of 1996) (only appropriate to Gauteng)
R.O.W - this is a bondage and describes a "access". In other words, it regulates access over one residential or commercial property in favour of the next residential or commercial property (comparable to a private street).
RPL - Recognition of Prior Learning. The principle of taking previous experimental knowing into account, regardless of that a person might not hold an accredited tertiary credentials in the pertinent 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 preferred state of development in its location of jurisdiction), being an extension of the local IDP.
SDP - a Website Development Plan. This is a plan usually defined in a land usage scheme which holistically highlights the designated advancement on a subject residential or commercial property, suggesting the position of the proposed building structures to be set up, access provisions, the provision of parking, landscaping, the imposition of structure lines, the position of servitudes and associated features. An SDP normally precedes the submission of a building strategy.
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 part( s) into city land (an area or suburban area) which might include partitioned erven/lots/stands and might include streets and public open spaces. Simultaneously, the residential or commercial properties located within the ambit of the municipality will be paid for land use rights (zoning) to manage and handle the use of land as authorized by the decision-making authority.
Splay - this normally refers to the corner element of the intersection between 2 roadways, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the actual roadway surface, aimed at working out the turning movement of automobile moving from the one road 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, electricity cables, sewage facilities, etc) are routed and where such services are protected by referral to a bondage diagram (depicting the area so afflicted). Typically, bondage locations might not be encroached upon by constructing structures and the information of such servitudes are typically explained in a notarial deed of thrall signed up in the workplace of the Registrar of Deeds.
SG diagram - a diagram authorized by the Surveyor General in terms of 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 an area or a partitioned area where numerous erven or partitioned portions are reflected on one diagram.
Zoning Certificate - a certificate handed down by a municipality licensing that a subject residential or commercial property on its records goes through a particular set of land use and advancement controls (zoning provisions). The certificate will normally confirm the land usage zoning classification under which the subject residential or commercial property is held, with due reference to development restrictions such as height limitations, protection constraints, flooring area constraints, parking requirements and so forth.
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RORA - Removal Of Restrictions Act
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