ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL

BOARD

December

6,

1971

JOHN

& LUELLA WOJCEK

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v.

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PCB 71—350

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

OPINION AND

ORDER

OF THE

BOARD

(by Mr.

Kissel):

On November

4,

1971,

John and Luella Wojcek filed a petition

for variance with the Board asking the Board to allow the Wojceks

to connect a home sewer line to that of the North Shore Sanitary

District.

The variance would be from paragraph 7 of the Board’s

order in the case of the League of Women Voters et al

v. North

Shore Sanitary District,

PCB 70-7.,

et seq. March 31,

1971.

The petition for variance does not, however, contain suffi-

cient facts for the Board to make a decision.

Some of the facts

which the Board does not know are the following:

1.

What have the Wojceks done to the lot since

the date of.~rchasein 1955?

2.

When was construction begun on the home?

3.

Can a septic field be used

and, if so, at what

cost?

Is the cost a hardship and, if so, why?

There may be other facts which would demonstrate that not granting

a variance to the Wojceks would create an

“arbitrary or unreason-

able’t hardship.

It

is not enough that the Wojceks have owned the

lot for some time,

if

they did nothing prior to March 31,

1971

to

build the house.

We need much more information and if it is not

provided within twenty

(20)

days of this order, the petition will

be dismissed.

It is so ordered.

I, Christan Moffett, Acting Clerk of the Pollution Control

Board, hereby~certifythat the Board adopted the above opinion and

order this

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day of December,

1971.

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