The Homesite Evaluation Score Card
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The Homesite Evaluation Score Card1

J. H. Herbert, Jr., R. B. Brown and E. A. Hanlon, Jr.2

The Land Judging Score Card is available only in PDF format. Click here to download the PDF. Full explanations of the terms used in the Homesite Evaluation Score Card can be found in Circular 242 Land Judging and Homesite Evaluation in Florida (http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/SS181 ).

How to Use the Homesite Evaluation Score Card

  1. The total perfect score at one site is 70 points.

  2. The total perfect score on Part I is 16 points. The total perfect score on Part II is 54 points (18 points for each use).

  3. Part I of the score card has to do with those factors the contestant must determine about the site. With the exception of depth, shrink-swell, and flooding, the factors are similar to those for land judging.

  4. After Part I is completed, determine the severity of limitations that the existing soil conditions impose on the planned uses as listed on Part II of the score card.

  5. The final evaluation of the site is determined by the worst degree of limitation found for the particular planned use.

  6. The contestants should be given 15 to 20 minutes to fill in the answers on their score cards on each site.

  7. In order to insure that the contests are not lengthened too much by the addition of homesite evaluation, and that grading does not become too burdensome, several alternatives are possible; for example:

    • Three land sites and one or two homesites to judge.

    • Other.

The primary concern is to make sure that there are enough interpretative uses required to test the contestants' skills in homesite evaluation.

Footnotes

1. This document is SL-145, one of a series of the Soil and Water Science Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Original publication date August, 1985. Revised January, 1999. Reviewed September, 2003. Visit the EDIS Web Site at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu.

2. J. H. Herbert, Jr., Associate Professor Emeritus, Soil and Water Science Department; R. B. Brown, Professor Emeritus, Soil and Water Science Department; and E. A. Hanlon, Jr., Professor and Center Director, Southwest Florida Research and Education Center; Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611.

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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension Service, University of Florida, IFAS, Florida A. & M. University Cooperative Extension Program, and Boards of County Commissioners Cooperating. Larry Arrington, Dean.


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