Clallam County plans to surplus more than a dozen properties.

Tim Dalton, the county’s housing and grant resource director, detailed 13 properties that have been identified to be surplussed to the county commissioners during their work session last week.

“We have identified a number of properties that do not seem to fall within the critical mission of the county and are not part of the road system,” according to county documents. “It seems the best option for the county is to declare these properties surplus and dispose of them to the public.”

The move will get the properties back onto the county’s tax rolls to generate income.

The properties recommended for surplus are all over Clallam County, from Sequim to Clallam Bay, Dalton told the commissioners.

“There’s this and that reason why the county has not done anything with these properties as we move forward,” Dalton said.

Five are less than 1 acre in size. The largest property is a 23.6-acre parcel zoned for neighborhood conservation on U.S. Highway 101 and Sieberts Creek Road in Port Angeles. The list also includes a 9.7-acre parcel zoned for commercial forest on South Old Mill Road in Port Angeles, a 6.4-acre parcel zoned for R5 at Herrick Road and Highway 101 in Port Angeles, a 4.9-acre parcel zoned for neighborhood conservation at Highway 101 and Old Olympic Highway in Port Angeles, and a 4.5-acre parcel at state Highway 112 and Oxenford Road in Clallam Bay.

Many of the properties include wetlands on them, but several are buildable properties, Dalton said.

“We’re not bringing any properties that we feel cannot be used,” he said. “There’s no sense surplussing a property that nobody’s gonna buy.”

In the past, the county’s process to sell surplussed properties has included listing them with local realtors, having them appraised, coming up with a market value and then listing them for sale, commissioners were told.