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For land developers:
- Buyers are willing to pay as much or more for the greater amount of open space available for their visual and physical use than is available to them in a conventional subdivision.
- Lower development costs because typically the length and therefore the cost of roads and utility construction are much less than in conventional land development that is dispersed over the entire property.
- With no reduction in the number of properties to be sold, there is a greater margin of profit.
For human residents:
- More extensive room to roam on foot, bicycles, snow shoes, skis, horseback in a natural and pleasant setting than is possible in a conventional development where individual properties are bordered entirely by other individual properties (that may not be available for them to use) and streets for motor vehicles.
- Greater likelihood that all building sites are in more desirable locations because of there need not or should not be a uniform distribution of individually owned sites.
- Greater resale values for property bordering natural areas.
For the community:
- Open space permanently preserved at no cost to taxpayers.
- Open spaces of adjacent conservation developments are linked thereby eventually resulting in a system of community-wide and inter-community greenways.
- Cost of municipal services can be reduced due to the shorter distance of public infrastructure per household.
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