RORA - Removal Of Restrictions Act
Usually, the building line location (likewise referred to as a building restriction area) may be utilized for outdoors parking and landscaping.
Bulk - a colloquial description of the quantum of developable floor area that might be established on a subject residential or commercial property in regards to the provisions of a statutory land use plan. (i.e. the amount of the areas of all floors of a structure on the subject residential or commercial property).
Coverage - a term normally specified in a land usage scheme 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. In other words, the coverage is a portion of the land location of the subject residential or commercial property, derived from calculating such location within the confines of the outer delineation of the footprint of all building 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 two of location covered by structures).
CPD - Continued Professional Development
Density - in planning terms, this generally describes the occupational density which may be permitted on a subject residential or commercial property, typically revealed as a variety of home units per hectare of land. As an example, a density of 20 systems per hectare on an erf determining 1000m ² will translate into a reliable 2 residence systems 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 managing authority of the preparation profession.
EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment, a procedure pondered in the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA), which procedure is utilized to acquire the authorisation of the pertinent environmental authority (either provincial or national), to perform a defined activity on a subject residential or commercial property as may be regulated in terms of the policies to NEMA.
FAR/FSR - Floor Area Ratio or Floor Space Ratio. A ratio typically expressed as a numerical figure (i.e. 0.5) being a factor that might be increased with the land location of a subject residential or commercial property (normally in square metres), the item of which will specify the gross floor location that might be put up on the subject residential or commercial property in terms of a land usage plan (also frequently referred to as "bulk or bulk aspect"). As an example, the FAR of 0,5, when applied to a website of 1000m TWO, will equate into a developable gross flooring location of 500m ².
General Plan - this is a SG Diagram reflecting numerous erven and streets or partitioned 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 flooring area" or "gross lettable area". Simply put, the area of the structure efficient in being the topic of a lease agreement in between the lessor and the lessee. This will typically leave out non-leasable locations of the structure (communal passages, stairwells, entryway foyers, energy spaces, and so on). Usually, when GLA is part of a land usage plan, it is generally just pertinent to the computation of the needed variety of parking bays to be offered 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 municipality showing how it will spend its money (and where). A spatial development structure shows the spatial ramifications of the IDP.
Line of No Access - the which form part of a land use plan may consist of a recommendation to a so-called "line of no access", signifying a line (normally along the perimeter 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 national roads and greater order roadways within the municipal jurisdiction.
LUS - Land Use Scheme as specified in SPLUMA 2013 (comparable 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 procedure of participating in to the amendment of a land usage scheme (or any of its provisions), to alter the land usage rights and development constraints suitable to the subject residential or commercial property.
ROD - a Record of Decision as contemplated in NEMA, being the written choice handed down by an environmental authority, following an environmental impact evaluation procedure (it may be positive or negative).
RORA - Removal of Restrictions Act. There are 2 versions 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 appropriate to Gauteng)
R.O.W - this is a servitude and describes a "right-of-way". To put it simply, it manages gain access to 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 a person might not hold a recognized tertiary certification in the relevant 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 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 municipality (its future wanted state of development in its location of jurisdiction), being an extension of the local IDP.
SDP - a Site Development Plan. This is a strategy normally defined in a land use scheme which holistically highlights the intended development on a subject residential or commercial property, indicating the position of the proposed structure structures to be put up, access provisions, the arrangement of parking, landscaping, the imposition of building lines, the position of bondages and related 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 signed up as a farm portion( s) into city land (a town or residential area) which may consist of subdivided erven/lots/stands and might consist of streets and public open areas. Simultaneously, the residential or commercial properties positioned within the ambit of the area will be managed land usage rights (zoning) to regulate and manage the use of land as approved by the decision-making authority.
Splay - this normally describes the corner component of the intersection in between two roadways, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the real roadway surface area, intended at negotiating the turning movement of motor vehicles 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, electrical power cable televisions, sewage centers, etc) are routed and where such services are safeguarded by referral to a bondage diagram (portraying the area so affected). Typically, bondage locations might not be trespassed upon by developing structures and the information of such thralls are normally described in a notarial deed of servitude registered in the workplace of the Registrar of Deeds.
SG diagram - a diagram authorized by the Surveyor General in regards to the Land Survey Act, signifying the boundaries of a residential or commercial property or a yoke or other acreage. This may consist of a General Plan of a township or a partitioned area where numerous erven or subdivided portions are reviewed one diagram.
Zoning Certificate - a certificate handed down 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 normally verify the land use zoning category under which the subject residential or commercial property is held, with due recommendation to advancement restrictions such as height restrictions, coverage constraints, flooring location limitations, parking requirements and the like.
