Willowbrook Motel, Partnership v. Pollution Control Board

This is a direct review of a decision of the Illinois Pollution Control Board (the Board) denying a variance which would have allowed petitioner to connect its proposed motel into the Marionbrook sewage system. The Board denied the petition for a variance on grounds that the Marionbrook facility was being operated in excess of its design capacity and that any hardship suffered by petitioner was unsupported and self-imposed, and failed to meet the statutory “arbitrary or unreasonable hardship” requirement. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, eh. 111½, par. 1035.) On review, petitioner contends that the…