Santa Clara rolled out the red carpet when Taylor Swift and Beyonce came to town in the summer of 2023, anointing the global pop superstars as honorary mayors before they took the stage for their respective concerts at Levi’s Stadium.

Now, after a lengthy investigation into whether Swift’s “The Eras Tour” and Beyonce’s “Renaissance Tour” broke the stadium’s notorious 11 p.m. curfew, city officials are admitting they did — but declining to issue any citations.

The curfew — 10 p.m. Sundays through Thursdays and 11 p.m. on Fridays and Sundays — has been a point of contention in Santa Clara for years, as the stadium, which opened in 2014, abuts a residential neighborhood.

As Levi’s Stadium prepares to kick off its concert series later this month — a lineup boasting Metallica, The Weeknd and

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