Sen. Michael Bennet has added his to the voices in opposition of a second Colorado location of Texas travel chain Buc-ee's.

The gubernatorial candidate said that the super-sized gas station and store would disrupt the Greenland Ranch conservation easement, which protects 17,700 acres in neighboring Douglas County from development, while in need of an annexation with the town of Palmer Lake for water.

The proposed Buc-ee's would occupy a 30-acre parcel at the County Line Road exit of Interstate 25, across from the start of the conservation easement corridor.

"It would scar land that Colorado families have fought to protect for decades, drain our precious water resources, and flood a treasured landscape with noise, traffic, and light," Bennet wrote in a statement released Monday. "It will

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