Big-city problems surfing in on Torquay as newcomers embrace a sea change

The Age profiles Torquay's transformation from a sleepy surf village into a town of almost 23,000, where residents battle over development, housing costs and preserving coastal character. Intrapac chief executive Max Shifman says his Quay and Quay2 estates delivered 1,300 homes and wants more land unlocked.

As I told The Age: “It will suffer growing pains of other towns that want to lock up boundaries. It becomes a question of how do you densify but maintain that character?”

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