OKAY. WOW! just finished gooing through those 13 submittals and sent my results off to Charlie so now I can interact without risk of being swayed.
1st, let me say that I was very impressed with the amount of work that was put in the submittals. And, I had to go through all 13 because I couldn't dismiss any as "Boy, this really sucks". I'm sure all have a much better understanding of just how intiment one gets with a site just through a topo. Granted it's only a piece of the puzzle but you can get pretty far with it.
Just as hard as it was for ya'll to figure out your program - what to do, I had an equally hard time trying to arrive at some sort of evaluation criteria. Just the inclusion or exclusion of a criteria would change the final scoring. And it's fairly arbritrary as to what the criteria is. Luckily we have multiple judges and hence will have multiple criteria and some overlapping criteria (which will strengthen those aspects in the scoring).
Since I don't wnat to bias the other judges, I will keep those criteria a mystery for now. But I did have more than 10 in an attempt to not have any aspect garner an overbearing weight on the outcome.
I also prepared a plan myself llong ago as a means to get an understanding of what the site had to offer. However, I changed the scale to 2x's what ya'll worked with so I wouldn't be influenced by what I came up with.
Also, after scoring the 13, scored mine and only bested my "winner" by 10% (and I came up with the criteria - go figure).
I liked the fact that ya'll are just numbers - 1-13, so I won't even know who's who.
I liked the comment pertaining to siting the Clubhouse. Never thought it was so critical- eh?
Mike N. Why do you think that clubhouse will flood? There could be a waterfall just off the property - or he could have deemed this to be sited in Dubai. Gotta keep an open and flexible mind.