The purpose of this study was to clarify the level of residents' awareness of parks, usage patterns and frequency of use during the COVID-19 pandemic. As case study was Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture. The method of this study was a questionnaire survey to determine residents' satisfaction with their quality of life and their expectations for new green policies about Green Infrastructure (GI) and Park-Private Finance Initiative (Park-PFI). The five factors extracted by the factor analysis (facility convenience, disaster and crime prevention, community activities, access, and open space) were found to have a significant relationship with quality of life. The results of the covariance structure analysis revealed a structural relationship between the actual use of parks, frequency of park use, satisfaction with quality of life, and expectations for green policies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Expectations for green policies were found to be more strongly related to GI than to PFI. In addition, high use of parks was found to be more expectations for the green policies. Furthermore, satisfaction with quality of life was found to be strongly related to expectations for green policies.
