RORA - Removal Of Restrictions Act

Usually, the building line location (likewise referred to as a structure restriction location) may be utilized for open air parking and landscaping.


Bulk - a colloquial description of the quantum of developable flooring area that might be developed on a subject residential or commercial property in terms of the arrangements of a statutory land use scheme. (i.e. the amount of the locations of all floorings of a structure on the subject residential or commercial property).


Coverage - a term generally defined in a land usage plan which describes the footprint of a building structure on a subject residential or commercial property, seen from directly above the subject residential or commercial property. Simply put, the protection is a percentage of the acreage of the subject residential or commercial property, obtained 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 directly above the subject residential or commercial property (i.e. a 40% protection on a website of 1000m ² will be 400m ² of area 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, usually revealed as a number of home units per hectare of land. As an example, a density of 20 units per hectare on an erf measuring 1000m ² will equate into an effective 2 dwelling systems 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 planning profession.


EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment, a treatment pondered in the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA), which procedure is utilized to obtain the authorisation of the pertinent environmental authority (either provincial or national), to perform a specified activity on a subject residential or commercial property as might be regulated in terms of the guidelines to NEMA.


FAR/FSR - Floor Area Ratio or Floor Space Ratio. A ratio generally revealed as a numeric figure (i.e. 0.5) being an aspect that might be multiplied with the acreage of a subject residential or commercial property (normally in square metres), the product of which will define the gross floor location that may be erected on the subject residential or commercial property in terms of a land use scheme (also typically referred to as "bulk or bulk element"). As an example, the FAR of 0,5, when applied to a site of 1000m TWO, will equate into a developable gross flooring location of 500m ².


General Plan - this is a SG Diagram showing numerous erven and streets or partitioned erven or farm portions on a single diagram (or a single set of diagrams).


GLA - in specific land usage schemes this is defined as "gross leasable location" or "gross leasable flooring location" or "gross lettable area". To put it simply, the area of the building capable of being the subject of a lease agreement between the lessor and the lessee. This will generally exclude non-leasable locations of the building (common passageways, stairwells, entryway foyers, utility spaces, and so on). Usually, when GLA becomes part of a land use scheme, it is usually just appropriate to the estimation of the needed number 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 "organization strategy" of the municipality showing how it will spend its money (and where). A spatial advancement structure illustrates the spatial implications of the IDP.


Line of No Access - the zoning maps which form part of a land use plan might include a reference to a so-called "line of no access", representing a line (typically along the perimeter boundary of the subject residential or commercial property) along which no access may 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 roads and greater order roadways within the community jurisdiction.


LUS - Land Use Scheme as specified in SPLUMA 2013 (similar to a town planning plan).


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), 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 taking care of the modification of a land use plan (or any of its provisions), to change the land usage rights and development constraints suitable to the subject residential or commercial property.


ROD - a Record of Decision as considered in NEMA, being the written decision handed down by an ecological authority, following an environmental effect assessment procedure (it may be positive or negative).


RORA - Removal of Restrictions Act. There are 2 variations particularly:


• The National Removal of Restrictions Act, 1967 (appropriate to all provinces other than Gauteng).
• Gauteng Removal of Restrictions Act, 1996 (Act 3 of 1996) (only applicable to Gauteng)


R.O.W - this is a servitude and refers to a "access". To put it simply, it manages access over one residential or commercial property in favour of the next residential or commercial property (similar to a personal street).


RPL - Recognition of Prior Learning. The principle of taking previous experimental learning into account, regardless of that a person might not hold a certified tertiary credentials 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 City Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act 32 of 2000). A visual illustration of the forward looking policy of a municipality (its future desired state of advancement in its location of jurisdiction), being an extension of the municipal IDP.


SDP - a Website Development Plan. This is a plan generally defined in a land usage scheme which holistically highlights the intended 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 thralls and related features. An SDP generally precedes the submission of a structure plan.


SPLUMA - Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013


Township establishment - an incorporated process of transforming a residential or commercial property signed up as a farm portion( s) into metropolitan land (a municipality or suburb) which might consist of partitioned erven/lots/stands and may include streets and public open spaces. Simultaneously, the residential or commercial properties situated within the ambit of the area will be managed land use rights (zoning) to control and manage making use of land as approved by the decision-making authority.


Splay - this normally refers to the corner part of the crossway between two roadways, with such corner "splayed" to accommodate the curvature of the real roadway surface area, targeted at working out the turning movement of motor vehicles moving from the one road to the other at such intersection.


Servitude - in preparing terms, this generally refers to a part of the subject residential or commercial property over which an engineering service (water lines, electrical power cables, sewage facilities, etc) are routed and where such services are secured by recommendation to a thrall diagram (illustrating the area so afflicted). Typically, servitude areas may not be encroached upon by building structures and the information of such bondages are normally explained in a notarial deed of bondage registered in the office of the Registrar of Deeds.


SG diagram - a diagram approved by the Surveyor General in terms of the Land Survey Act, signifying the boundaries of a residential or commercial property or a thrall or other acreage. This may include a General Plan of a municipality or a partitioned location where numerous erven or subdivided parts are assessed one diagram.


Zoning Certificate - a certificate handed down by a municipality certifying that a subject residential or on its records undergoes a specific set of land usage and advancement controls (zoning arrangements). The certificate will normally validate the land usage zoning category under which the subject residential or commercial property is held, with due referral to advancement limitations such as height limitations, coverage restrictions, flooring location restrictions, parking requirements and so on.