Committee tries to lessen state line change impact

ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) — An official overseeing work to hash out where the state line lies between North Carolina and South Carolina says fewer than two dozen people have expressed concerns that the new survey puts them in a different state.

Sidney Miller told the Joint Boundary Commission on Friday that while about 90 properties were affected when the new survey shifted the state line a few hundred feet, many of those landowners were contacted out of an abundance of caution.

The committee is meeting to discuss a stretch of the state line from north of Greenville and Spartanburg to where the line makes a sharp turn in Lancaster County.

Members want to reduce the impacts of changing school districts, utilities and possible back taxes as much as they can.