RORA - Removal Of Restrictions Act
Usually, the structure line location (likewise referred to as a structure limitation location) may be utilized for outdoors parking and landscaping.
Bulk - a colloquial description of the quantum of developable flooring area that may be developed on a subject residential or commercial property in terms of the provisions of a statutory land use plan. (i.e. the sum of the areas of all floorings of a building on the subject residential or commercial property).
Coverage - a term usually 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. Simply put, the coverage is a percentage of the land area of the subject residential or commercial property, derived from determining such location within the boundaries 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 ² will be 400m ² of location covered by structures).
CPD - Continued Professional Development
Density - in preparing terms, this typically describes the occupational density which may be permitted on a subject residential or commercial property, normally expressed as a number of dwelling units 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 home units that might be erected on the land in concern.
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 procedure considered in the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA), which procedure is employed to obtain the authorisation of the appropriate ecological authority (either provincial or nationwide), to carry out a defined activity on a subject residential or commercial property as might be managed in regards to the regulations to NEMA.
FAR/FSR - Floor Area Ratio or Floor Space Ratio. A ratio normally revealed as a numeric figure (i.e. 0.5) being an aspect that might be multiplied with the land area of a subject residential or commercial property (usually in square metres), the item of which will specify the gross floor area that may be erected on the subject residential or commercial property in regards to a land use 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 flooring 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 plans this is defined as "gross leasable area" or "gross leasable flooring area" or "gross lettable location". To put it simply, the location of the building capable of being the subject of a lease arrangement between the lessor and the lessee. This will normally leave out non-leasable locations of the building (communal passageways, stairwells, entrance foyers, utility spaces, etc). Usually, when GLA belongs to a land use scheme, it is normally only relevant to the estimation of the required variety of parking bays to be supplied on a subject residential or commercial property.
IDP - Integrated Development Plan as considered in, inter alia, the Local Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act 32 of 2000). This is the personnel "service plan" of the town suggesting how it will spend its money (and where). A spatial development structure highlights the spatial implications of the IDP.
Line of No Access - the zoning maps which form part of a land usage plan might include a reference to a so-called "line of no gain access to", signifying a line (normally 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 access apply to provincial and nationwide roads and greater order roads within the community jurisdiction.
LUS - Land Use Scheme as specified in SPLUMA 2013 (similar to a town scheme).
NEMA - National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998)
Ordinance - may describe the Town 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 process of taking care of the modification of a land use plan (or any of its arrangements), to change the land use rights and development restrictions applicable to the subject residential or commercial property.
ROD - a Record of Decision as considered in NEMA, being the composed decision handed down by an environmental authority, following an ecological impact assessment procedure (it might be positive or negative).
RORA - Removal of Restrictions Act. There are 2 variations namely:
• The National Removal of Restrictions Act, 1967 (applicable to all provinces aside from Gauteng).
• Gauteng Removal of Restrictions Act, 1996 (Act 3 of 1996) (just appropriate to Gauteng)
R.O.W - this is a bondage and describes a "access". Simply put, it regulates access over one residential or commercial property in favour of the next residential or commercial property (comparable to a private 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 certification 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 considered 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 municipality (its future preferred state of development in its location of jurisdiction), being an extension of the community IDP.
SDP - a Website Development Plan. This is a 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 put up, gain access to arrangements, the arrangement of parking, landscaping, the imposition of building lines, the position of yokes and associated features. An SDP usually precedes the submission of a structure strategy.
SPLUMA - Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013
Township facility - an integrated process of converting a residential or commercial property registered as a farm part( s) into city land (an area or residential area) which may include subdivided erven/lots/stands and may consist of streets and public open areas. Simultaneously, the residential or commercial properties located within the ambit of the municipality will be afforded land use rights (zoning) to manage and manage the use of land as approved by the decision-making authority.
Splay - this normally refers to the corner part of the intersection in between 2 roads, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the actual roadway surface area, focused on negotiating the turning motion of motor vehicles moving from the one road to the other at such intersection.
Servitude - in planning terms, this generally refers to a part of the subject residential or commercial property over which an engineering service (water lines, electrical power cable televisions, sewage facilities, etc) are routed and where such services are safeguarded by recommendation to a bondage diagram (illustrating the area so afflicted). Typically, yoke locations may not be encroached upon by building structures and the details of such servitudes are typically explained in a notarial deed of servitude signed up in the office of the Registrar of Deeds.
SG diagram - a diagram authorized by the Surveyor General in regards to the Land Survey Act, denoting the borders of a residential or commercial property or a thrall or other acreage. This may include a General Plan of a township or a partitioned location where numerous erven or subdivided parts are reflected on one diagram.
Zoning Certificate - a certificate bied far by a town accrediting that a subject residential or commercial property on its records undergoes a specific set of land usage 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 constraints such as height restrictions, protection constraints, floor area limitations, parking requirements and so on.