Abstract
We carried out a questionnaire survey on municipalities of the IntegratedRural Development Model Project districts to grasp an understanding of actual conditionsof development and use of village parks as a basic investigation to develop planning methods for village parks. In this report, we discuss the use and maintenance of village parks, and abstracted the problems of park planning. We obtained the following results:
(1) Uses of parks are tending to diversify (growth of sports and enlargement of community function), and produce various requests for non-typical development.
(2) Municipal officers are tending to feel distrust toward mechanical development in districts with low rates of use, because of depopulation. Unique measures are desired for planning park systems in these districts, such as mountainous areas.
(3) Municipalities are tending to entrust park maintenance to resident organizations. However, role-sharing and clarification of cost-sharing is still inadequate.
