PHOENIX (AP) -- A ballot measure extending a sales tax that benefits parks and preserves appears to be winning.

Unofficial results showed 83 percent of Phoenix voters supported the initiative with 17 percent opposed.

Proposition A calls for a 30-year extension of an initiative that allots a one-tenth of a cent tax rate to contribute to the development and maintenance of area parks. Money raised would also purchase land for desert and mountain preserves.

The ordinance was scheduled to expire in July 2009.

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