Another very important consideration when selecing a lot and home footprint is the exposure to the sun. If you like sun in the AM with breakfast, make sure that area faces east; want a cool afternoon lanai, face it east or north; want your deck warm for afternoon swims, face it south or west, etc. Your intended model has one of the better designs of the major living areas (windows or sliders on 3 sides) so your major rooms will be light most of the day long. Many models have "inside" living rooms/great room areas and basically depend on outside light from either end of the building. Inside brightness gets even worse if the home is facing the wrong way to catch the outside sunlight. We've been a few that end up as glorified caves! Hence the need for addition of solar tubes. Punching a hole on your ceiling for a solar tube in a general living area (not a closet, or laundry room, etc) is usually indication of a basic design error - and there are a lot of solar tubes in TV! So "design" for your sunlight carefully.
Personally, we love light, so we made sure our garage, bath and closets were on the north side of the home. and our general living areas follow the sun all day.
