L.A." into an "ornate gated community." Pornography. He won approval in 1985 of an ordinance prohibiting new adult businesses, such as sexually oriented movie theaters, bookstores and night clubs, from opening within 500 feet of churches, homes and schools. Salvadorans. Bernson was the only "no" vote in 1987 on a City Council offer of $10,000 for relocation assistance for Central American refugees allegedly threatened by El Salvador death squads. Prostitution. The City Council acceded to his idea of publicizing the names of the men (and the few women) who were arrested for patronizing prostitutes. Lieutenant governor. In 1989, Bernson's opening a campaign fund for a purported race for lieutenant governor drew criticism from California Common Cause as a way to circumvent the city's campaign contribution limits. He rejected the charge. Toilets. The councilman submitted an ordinance in 1993 requiring twice the number of toilets for women as for men in any future construction of public facilities. Environment. In response to some criticism of his appointment to the South Coast Air Quality Management Board by Mayor Richard Riordan in January 1999, Bernson cited his defense of the Chatsworth Reservoir as a nature preserve and his authorship of the city's oak-tree preservation ordinance as evidence for his "solid" environmental credentials. A Times reporter wrote that "Bernson has lobbied for two decades" to preserve the reservoir that "he says should stand as a legacy of the San Fernando Valley's past for future generations." Personal life Bernson and his wife, Robyn, had three daughters, Nicole, Holleigh and Sarah. They lived in Northridge, California. Holleigh Bernson, an "aspiring film director," was killed in a one-car traffic accident in October 1995 when she lost control of her car in a night drive through Griffith Park and it went off the road. Named in tribute to Holly Golightly, the Audrey Hepburn character in "Breakfast at Tiffany's," she had changed her name to Holleigh Rox-Anne Bernson. A city park in the Porter Ranch area of the San Fernando Valley was named in her honor, and Bernson gave $70,000 from his City Council discretionary fund to the American Film Institute to fund a scholarship named for her. Bernson was known as "a man with a volatile temper, a tenacious politician with little tolerance for bureaucratic delays and council members who question his efforts." He was also said to be "often gruff" and "impatient with schmoozing." In 2008 he was