-- Name -- spatial plan -- Definition -- A set of documents that indicates a strategic direction for the development of a given geographic area, states the policies, priorities, programmes and land allocations that will implement the strategic direction and influences the distribution of people and activities in spaces of various scales. Spatial plans may be developed for urban planning, regional planning, environmental planning, landscape planning, national spatial plans, or spatial planning at the Union level.
-- Name -- official documentation -- Definition -- The official documentation that composes the spatial plan; it may be composed of, the applicable legislation, the regulations, cartographic elements, descriptive elements that may be associated with the complete spatial plan, a zoning element or a supplementary regulation . In some Member States the actual textual regulation will be part of the data set (and can be put in the regulationText attribute), in other Member States the text will not be part of the data set and will be referenced via a reference to a document or a legal act. At least one of the three voidable values shall be provided. -- Description -- NOTE: The LegislationCitation is the value type of the attribute regulation reference. An example of a regulation reference would be: http://www2.vlaanderen.be /ruimtelijk/grup/00350/00362_00001/data/ 212_00362_00001_d_0BVR.pdf.
-- Name -- zoning element -- Definition -- A spatial object which is homogeneous regarding the permitted uses of land based on zoning which separate one set of land uses from another. -- Description -- Zoning elements refer to the regulation of the kinds of activities which will be acceptable on particular lots (such as open space, residential, agricultural, commercial or industrial). The intensity of use at which those activities can be performed (from low-density housing such as single family homes to high-density such as high-rise apartment buildings), the height of buildings, the amount of space that structures may occupy, the proportions of the types of space on a lot, such as how much landscaped space, impervious surface, traffic lanes, and parking may be provided.
-- Name -- supplementary regulation -- Definition -- A spatial object (point, line or polygon) of a spatial plan that provides supplementary information and/or limitation of the use of land/water necessary for spatial planning reasons or to formalise external rules defined in legal text. -- Description -- NOTE the supplementary regulations affects all land use that overlap with the geometry EXAMPLE an air field generates restriction in its surroundings regarding aircraft landing, radar and telecommunication devices. It is the buffer around these artefacts that generates the supplementary regulation on the Land Use.