LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Intention to File Petition to Close Road
Pursuant to Chapter 9, Section 57-9-10 of the CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, as amended, “Petition to Abandon or Close Street, Road or Highway”, Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will file a petition with the Court of Common Pleas for Spartanburg County praying that a section of an alleged road in the County of Spartanburg, South Carolina, described as follows, be abandoned or closed:
All those two (2) pieces, parcels, or tracts of land situate, lying, and being in the County of Spartanburg, State of South Carolina, being shown as that portion of Joe Barnett Road (S42-2051) on the northern side of U.S. Route 221, on a plat of survey entitled “Exhibit of R/W Acquisition Along Joe Barnett Road Prepared for KRB Land Holdings, LLC,” by Mitchell Surveying, dated July 14, 2026, and recorded September 21, 2026, in Plat Book 190, page 322 in the Office of the Register of Deeds Office for Spartanburg County, South Carolina, and having the following metes and bounds:
Parcel B – 0.275 acre, more or less
BEGINNING at a nail set in the middle of U.S. Route 221 at its northwestern intersection with Joe Barnett Road, labeled “STA 678+20.4,” and running S 66º17’30” E 84.2 feet to a nail set on the edge the right-of-way for U.S. Route 221, at a point in Joe Barnett Road (S42-2051), the POINT OF BEGINNING; thence, S 66º17’30” E 480.35 feet total to nail found (passing a nail set at 17.4 feet) in Joe Barnett Road (S42-2051); thence, continuing in Joe Barnett Road (S42-2051), S 60º11’ E 98.67 feet to rebar found in Joe Barnett Road (S42-2051); thence turning and running N 61º40’01” E 28.07 feet to a point in the edge of the right-of-way of Joe Barnett Road (S42-2051); thence turning and running along the edge of the right-of-way of Joe Barnett Road (S42-2051) (labeled “SCDOT Prescriptive R/W”), chord bearing S 60º29’09” E, with chord length of 94.93 feet, and radius of 450.00 feet, to a point; thence continuing along the edge of the right-of-way of Joe Barnett Road (S42-2051), N 67º00’19” W. 340.28 feet to a point; thence continuing along the edge of the right-of-way of Joe Barnett Road (S42-2051), N 65º34’29” W. 200.25 feet to a point on the edge of the right-of-way for U.S. Route 221; thence turning and running along the edge of the right-of-way for U.S. Route 221, S 39º51’13” E 43.80 feet to POINT OF BEGINNING.
Parcel A – 1.172 acres, more or less
BEGINNING at a nail set in the middle of U.S. Route 221 at its southeastern intersection with Joe Barnett Road (S42-2051), labeled “STA 663+03.1,” and running thence N 55º28’19” E 37.59 feet to a point in the center of Joe Barnett Road (S42-2051), the POINT OF BEGINNING; thence turning and running along the edge of the right-of-way for U.S. Route 221, chord bearing S 38º52’09” E, with chord length of 22.68 feet, and radius of 1947.50 feet, to a point; thence turning and running with the edge of the right-of-way of Joe Barnett Road (S42-2051) N 51º23’09” E 24.79 feet to PC; thence turning and running with the edge of the right-of-way of Joe Barnett Road (S42-2051) (labeled “SCDOT Prescriptive R/W”), chord bearing S 23º26’43” E, with chord length of 337.70 feet, and radius of 5247.94 feet, to a point; thence continuing with the edge of the right-of-way of Joe Barnett Road (S42-2051), N 21º28’20” W 346.15 feet to PC; thence continuing with the edge of the right-of-way of Joe Barnett Road (S42-2051), chord bearing S 43º59’42” E, with chord length of 314.11 feet, and radius of 410.00 feet, to a point; thence continuing with the edge of the right-of-way of Joe Barnett Road (S42-2051), N 67º00’19” W 340.62 feet to a point; thence continuing with the edge of the right-of-way of Joe Barnett Road (S42-2051), N 65º34’29” W 117.72 feet to a point; thence turning and running with the edge of the right-of-way for U.S. Route 221, N 39º51’13” W 48.37 feet to nail set on the edge of the right-of-way for U.S. Route 221 and in Joe Barnett Road (S42-2051); thence, S 66º17’30” E 480.35 feet total to nail found (passing a nail set at 17.4 feet) in Joe Barnett Road (S42-2051); thence, continuing in Joe Barnett Road (S42-2051), S 60º11’ E 98.67 feet to rebar found in Joe Barnett Road (S42-2051); thence turning and running N 61º40’01” E 28.07 feet to a point in the edge of the right-of-way of Joe Barnett Road (S42-2051); thence turning and running with the edge of the right-of-way of Joe Barnett Road (S42-2051) (labeled “SCDOT Prescriptive R/W”), chord bearing S 38º57’32” E, with chord length of 240.10 feet, and radius of 450.00 feet, to PC; thence continuing along the edge of the right-of-way of Joe Barnett Road (S42-2051), chord bearing S 22º28’46” E, with chord length of 15.82 feet, and radius of 450.00 feet, to PC; thence continuing along the edge of the right-of-way of Joe Barnett Road (S42-2051), S 21º28’20” E 154.66 feet to a point; thence continuing along the edge of the right-of-way of Joe Barnett Road (S42-2051), S 21º28’20” E 191.45 feet to a point; thence continuing along the edge of the right-of-way of Joe Barnett Road (S42-2051), chord bearing S 22º50’03” E, with chord length of 223.96 feet, and radius of 5207.94 feet, to a point; thence continuing along the edge of the right-of-way of Joe Barnett Road (S42-2051), chord bearing S 24º51’06” E, with chord length of 142.77 feet, and radius of 5207.94 feet, to PC; thence turning and running S 51º23’09” W 56.53 feet to a point on the edge of the right-of-way for U.S. Route 221; thence turning and running with the edge of the right-of-way for U.S. Route 221, chord bearing S 38º16’50” E, with chord length of 17.32 feet, and radius of 1947.50 feet, to the POINT OF BEGINNING; and all portions of Joe Barnett Road proposed to be closed that may not conform to boundaries found on the recorded plats of record based upon imprecise measurements and other ambiguities of the metes and bounds for the portion of Joe Barnett Road to be found in the land records for Spartanburg County, South Carolina, and the land records for the South Carolina Department of Transportation in Columbia, South Carolina.
Reference is made to said plat for a more complete and perfect description.
Dated: October 13, 2026
Kristin Burnett Barber
Johnson, Smith, Hibbard & Wildman
Law Firm, L.L.P.
Post Office Drawer 5587
Spartanburg, South Carolina 29304
Phone: (864) 582-8121
Attorney for Petitioner
10-22, 29, 11-5
October 22, 2026
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