10-26-18 Buckhead Reporter

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OCT. 26 - NOV. 8, 2018 • VOL. 12 — NO. 22

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► Bike share stations come to national park bordering Buckhead PAGE 14 ► Voters Guide to Nov. 6 ballot questions PAGE 4

Redesigned Bobby Jones Golf Course prepares its big debut BY JOHN RUCH johnruch@reporternewspapers.net

After years of planning, neighborhood debates and massive real estate deals, it’s time once again to play at Bobby Jones Golf Course. Atlanta’s first public golf course, dating to 1932, reopens Nov. 5 with a dramatic redesign, pitched as “revolutionary and spectacular.” See GOLF on page 12 PHIL MOSIER

Marty Elgison, head of the Bobby Jones Golf Course Foundation, tries a putt on one of the redesigned course’s oversized, two-hole greens.

FOOD & DRINK

Steaks and sides with Michel Arnette Page 18

The ‘Marsy’s Law’ ballot question: Pro & Con

YES NO

Marsy’s Law would enforce a victim’s bill of rights Marsy’s Law is a solution in search of a problem

See COMMENTARY, page 10

OUT & ABOUT Gear up for the holidays Page 16

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Holy Spirit Prep seeks major site expansion BY JOHN RUCH johnruch@reporternewspapers.net

Holy Spirit Preparatory School is planning a major expansion of its Buckhead Upper School campus onto a roughly 13acre site next door in neighboring Sandy Springs. The plan would consolidate the Lower School, currently on Sandy Springs’ Long Island Drive, onto the current Upper School site. Plans filed with the city show the largely wooded site being filled with four school buildings totaling nearly 200,000 square feet, a parking deck and a sports See HOLY on page 23


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