Final Booklet V1

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Can you discuss the decision to design a two-story building with the entry on the 1st floor? Peacock and Lewis, one of the country’s leading clubhouse designers, strongly advocated for this design. They advised that new clubhouses, especially in Florida, are all being built totally above ground. The reasons, according to our architect, include: • Structural: It avoids insidious moisture issues. • Aesthetics: It results in a more beautiful, more enjoyable and more productive environment where virtually every room has windows, views and tons of natural light. • Health: Natural light has significant health benefits and modern facilities are built to allow it in as much as possible. • Curb appeal: It will have a grand, elegant presence both front and back. • Functional: It allows for the entire first floor clubhouse corridor to be directly connected with how we live, play and even work during our entire daylight hours. Every daytime activity and function, including breakfast, lunch, fitness, spa, cards, locker rooms, golf, tennis, pickleball, POA, Kinkos, and even Board and committee meetings, etc. will be directly accessible by either cart or car and whether rain or shine. It will indeed be the “community level” encouraging Member interaction at every step. • Convergence/Congestion Issues: The design separates daily from evening as well as formal from informal activities. It solves for the current lack of separation between pre-function activities and general clubhouse entry. It also allows for separation of pre- function Ballroom activities from those needing to access The Grille Room

and Sports Bar. Importantly, it provides direct covered access to all our dining venues, notably including the Sports Bar. • Accessibility: There are several options to shuttle between floors: 3 higher volume, higher speed elevators and multiple internal and external staircases. Yes, there will be some minor queuing at the upstairs elevators after a few large events. Currently there is queuing at the valet area. These logistics were netted against the overwhelming positives of the building design. Is the New Clubhouse large enough? Was it designed to fit a budget? • TheNewClubhousewas NOTdesigned to meet a budget, it WAS designed to a meet a Program. Our major mandate to Peacock and Lewis was to deliver at least as much seating capacity and usable space both overall and in each of the Member dining venues, card rooms, living and pre-function areas as well as the spaces for our management, staff and POA functions. In many cases the design exceeded these expectations and, of course, did so in much more beautiful spaces with views. • We eliminated significant wasted space that was consumed by a maze of hallways, outside covered walkways, 72 internal columns, multiple disconnected kitchens, needless locker room space, and transitions between previous additions. The result is an effective, efficient building with more usable space where it counts.

Designed and planned for all our personnel to have a better working environment.

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