Friday Update August 28, 2026
🌳 Upcoming Town of Double Oak Public Meetings
Town Council Meeting: Tuesday, September 8, 2026, at Town Hall (7:00pm)
Public Hearing for the FY 2026-27 Operating Budget
Ordinance Committee Meeting: September 9, 2026, at Town Hall (4:30pm)
Items to be addressed during Ordinance Committee Mtg:
Chapter 3 - Building Regulations, legal updates
Chapter 10 – Subdivision Regulations, legal updates
Chapter 2 – Animal Control, requested updates
New Ordinance – Town reimbursement for planning, engineering, and legal expenses
🔥Burn Ban in Effect
The DOVFD notified the Town Administration that a burn ban is now in effect for Double Oak and Denton County by Order of the Denton County Commissioners Court (link below)
Order of the Denton County Commissioners Court
💧A Note from Cross Timbers Water:
They are currently experiencing high water demand. Their system has exceeded 5 million gallons per day, with the majority of the increased demand coming from irrigation and sprinkler use.
Cross Timbers Water Supply Corporation remains in Stage 2 water restrictions, which requires customers to follow the even/odd address watering schedule.
The current watering restrictions and schedule can be found on the main page of our website at www.crosstimberswater.com.
It is important that residents understand the need to follow these restrictions. If demand continues to exceed 5 million gallons per day, they will have no choice but to move to Stage 3 of their Water Conservation Plan, which would limit outdoor watering to one day per week.
🚧Keeping Double Oak beautiful and well-maintained is a team effort:
See a pothole or a downed sign? We want to know about it. The Town now has a dedicated email address for residents to report any concerns about our infrastructure - making it easier than ever to help us keep Double Oak in great shape. Drop us a note anytime at publicworks@doubleoak.texas.gov. Please remember this inbox is for non-urgent matters. For any emergency, always call 911.
🗑️🚛Report Missed Garbage/Recycling
We have added a link on our website for residents to report when our waste pickup service misses your house. Please follow the link below and fill in the information requested and it will then be sent to Town Hall Administration for tracking purposes. In addition, it is important that you contact Republic Services as soon as you become aware that your collection was missed. By reporting the missed pickup promptly, Republic Services can arrange for a truck to return the following day to collect your trash and recycling. Did you know? Republic now has cameras on their trash/recycling pickup trucks to improve service.
https://doubleoak.texas.gov/waste-pickup-report
🌳 Double Oak Trivia Corner
Question: The Town's official history describes Double Oak as a "________ town," a nod to how much of its work gets done by residents pitching in. What's the missing word?
Be the first to email us the correct answer and you’ll win bragging rights!
📧 Submit your answer by emailing townhall@doubleoak.texas.gov with the subject line “Trivia Contest.”
🏆 The winner will be announced in next week’s newsletter.
Last Week’s Answer: The old Double Oak School — the town's namesake — was located on what road? Answer: McMakin Road
👏 Congratulations to Joyce Reppert for the correct answer and thank you to everyone who participated!
🌳 Fun Fact About Our Town
🌟 Did You Know? Double Oak sits within a rare and ancient forest belt called the Cross Timbers — a mosaic of oak woodland and prairie that stretches from Kansas down through Oklahoma and into North Texas. The stars of this forest are the post oak and blackjack oak, and here's the remarkable part: in undisturbed pockets, some of these post oaks are 200-400 years old, predating the birth of the U.S. — even though a two-century-old post oak might stand only about 30 feet tall. They grow that slowly. So the next time you drive past a modest-looking oak around town, it may have been here long before Double Oak — or Texas itself — had a name.✨ 🌳
🌳"Oak-ay, that's a wrap!"
— Your Town Administration🌳